A full botanical illustration drawn from a 16th century art print spreads across the canvas cover — a golden peony in full bloom, bare branches tracing upward against an ochre ground. Part of Slow's Libri Muti (Mute Books) series, this notebook is made entirely by hand in Florence using traditional printing and bookbinding techniques that Founders Roberto di Filitto and Nathalie Schneider have spent years researching and reviving.
At 160 pages, it opens flat and stays there, held by exposed coptic-stitch binding. The edges of the page block are hand-coloured in cornflower blue — a considered counterpoint to the warmth of the cover. Pages are PEFC-certified and acid-free.
Cover: Botanical illustration after 16th century art print — hand-coloured page edges: blue
Bound notebook — canvas cover — 15×21cm — 320 pages
Blank soft white pages, 80 gsm — PEFC certified, acid-free
Exposed spine stitching, lay-flat construction, hand-coloured page edges
'Without words, without writing, and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity' — Hermann Hesse
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