$115.00
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One notebook. One companion. Three inserts. Your initials on the cover. Everything you need — ready to carry from day one.
Handmade to order in our Lobethal studio. Current lead time is 4 to 5 weeks before dispatch. Ready to Ship pieces are sent the next business day.
Some things don't need to be complicated.
Pick it up. The leather has a weight to it that stops you. Full-grain, cut from Australian hides -- the surface is exactly as it came off the animal. No sanding, no correction. Run your thumb across it and you can feel the grain. You will smell it before you open the first page.
That is not incidental. That is the leather telling you what it is.
The Settler is a single wrap of leather with four spine elastics and a centre closure. Nothing more. There is a reason it is where the range begins -- not because it is the simplest, but because it is the most honest. Everything you see is everything it is.
Jess's family have worked the Adelaide Hills for seven generations. The first of them put down roots and built from what the land gave them. The Settler carries that same logic. No decoration, no ceremony. A cover that earns its place over years of use.
The leather will soften into whoever carries it. The patina it develops will be entirely theirs -- shaped by their hands, their bag, their daily rhythm. Every mark belongs to the person who made it.
Add initials and they are pressed into the leather using a traditional hot embossing machine -- a method unchanged since the 1880s. No foil, no ink. Just heat and pressure. That is what makes it a gift rather than a purchase. That is what makes it irreplaceable.
- Single wrap cover with centre closure
- Four spine elastics hold 4 inserts comfortably -- add more as you go
- Full-grain Australian leather
- Cut and stitched by hand in Lobethal SA
- 3 x 60 page lined inserts included
- Refillable for life
- Free embossing up to 5 letters, Goudy all caps
