Notebook: Block Print

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The paper on these covers is block-printed by hand, the way Italy decorated its upholstery and its humbler rooms from the sixteenth century on. The motif is cut into a woodblock; e ach colour needs a block of its own; and because the blocks are small, the pattern is built across the sheet one press at a time, repeated until it is whole. Giulio Giannini e Figlio's own workshop is part of why the craft carried on into twentieth-century Italy. The patterns are not decoration in the abstract - each is a folk motif from a particular Italian region, known by name, the kind of design Giannini have catalogued and published. Here, one of them wraps a soft-covered notebook of plain pages. Exclusive to Australia. Show more