Our Art Journal is the perfect space for creative collages, doodles, sketches, mix media and writing your thoughts, ideas, dreams, and adventures. Pages are made from strong handmade paper and are ideal for art journaling.

Cover: World Map Print
Back Cover & Spine: Handwoven cotton textile
Paper: 100% recycled, wood-free handmade paper sourced from rural units
Pages GSM: Approximately 250 gsm
Page type: Blank, hand-stitched
No. of pages: 84 pages (42 leaves)
Paper texture: Rough, handmade
Binding: Hardbound, flat lay
Writing: Use a ballpoint pen, pencil or gel pen, ideal for art
Dimensions: 23.5 x 17.2 cms

Cover - World Map Print

Print of a vintage world map.

Back Cover & Spine

The back cover and spine is made from handloom cotton. The cloth is made directly from raw cotton in the villages close to cotton fields, combining traditional Indian principles of cloth-making with modern small-scale technology. It avoids the baling and unbailing of cotton by heavy machinery and unnecessary transport. It has a beautiful texture, is soft, and keeps its shape for ages. Handloom weaving is today the largest non-farm employer in the country, and mostly rural at that. Each region has its particular weave, and that's the beauty of handloom.

Pages

Paper: 100% wood-free and recycled from cotton rags, handmade in rural village units.

Please note: Minor imperfections may occur in the textile, as it is handwoven on looms, and in the papers, as they are handmade from recycled cotton rags. These imperfections are natural and add beauty to the product, as each piece is unique.

About Art Journals

An art diary, art journal, or visual journal is a daily journal kept by artists. It often contains words and sketches and occasionally includes mixed-media elements such as collages.

These books contain rough workings, sketches and doodles of ideas later to appear in finished works, as well as act as a normal diary, by allowing the person to record their day-to-day activities and emotions.

Many famous artists are known for their art diaries – the sketchbooks of Leonardo da Vinci are probably the best-known example. Other artists to have used art journals include Frida Kahlo. The concept of an art diary is also used by people working in related creative fields such as music, photography, design, architecture, etc.

Art Journal - Vintage Map Print Cover