Alexander Olch Notebooks

I love the cloth covers of these notebooks! They’re made by a fashion designer known for his ties. But yowza– they cost €85-155 at this Paris shop’s website (which has some other fun-looking stationery items too). Via Alexander Olch Notebooks | Selectism.com.

19th Century Notebooks From a Japanese Dyeworks

These are just gorgeous! This set of eight books is a treasure.  The books are the journals of a kasuri weaver/dyer from Omi, an area of Japan (present-day Shiga Prefecture)  which produced some of Japan’s finest hemp and ramie kasuri textiles, known as Omi jofu. The books date from 1859 through the beginning of last [...]