The Narrator

The Narrator

Rustic Whiskey / A5
$160.00
$160.00
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The Narrator

Rustic Wren · Narrator's Range

The Narrator.

A leather cover that wraps one book like a second skin. No elastic system. For the person who fills one book completely.

Some people carry one book and fill it completely.

Leather ColourRustic Whiskey
Size
Embossing, included free
JMB
Your initials or a name, pressed into the leather at the studio. Up to 5 letters · Goudy Old Style · Upper or lowercase.
How embossing works ↓
$160.00
$160.00

Includes 1 thin lined insert. Free embossing, up to 5 letters.

Want a pocket on the front? The Elder →The same held book with a raw edge pocket, cut from the hide and left natural.

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About this notebook
One book, carried completely.

The Narrator is a different kind of notebook to the Traveller's Range. No insert system, no elastics, just a full-grain leather cover built around one book. Front and back, two internal sleeves, your notebook wrapped and held.

Slip in a hardcover and it sits structured and firm. Use a softcover and the leather relaxes with it, wrinkling, settling, developing a patina that belongs entirely to you. The notebook inside shapes the experience. You choose what that is.

In A5 it travels easily. In A4 it becomes a proper desk object -- present, considered, worth sitting down for. For the person who carries one book and fills it completely before reaching for the next.

What's in this notebook
Everything it needs. Nothing it doesn't.
→ Folio style -- holds one notebook
→ Front and back cover, two internal sleeves
→ Hardcover sits structured; softcover relaxes and settles
→ A5 and A4
→ Full-grain Australian leather
→ 1 thin lined insert included
→ Free embossing up to 5 letters, Goudy Old Style
→ Cut and stitched by hand in Lobethal SA
Blind embossing · Goudy Old Style
Blind embossing · Goudy Old Style
Make it yours
A method unchanged since the 1880s.

Initials pressed into the leather using a traditional hot embossing machine. No foil, no ink. Just heat, pressure, and time. The impression settles into the leather and stays there for the life of the piece.

Included with every order at no extra cost.

Font: Goudy Old Style · Upper or lowercase
Up to 5 letters · Enter your text in the buy box above
One book. One voice. All the way through.
$160

A5 and A4. Includes 1 lined insert.
Free embossing. Made in Lobethal.

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A note from Jess
The Narrator is for a different kind of writer than the Traveller's Range. One book, filled completely, then the next one. The leather wraps the book like a second skin and softens around it the longer you write.
-- Jess, Lobethal