$195.00
Sale price
$195.00
Regular price
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.
If you are going to own one notebook from this range, own this one.
Not because it is the most expensive. Because it is the most considered. Because it is the one Jess makes for herself -- and when a maker decides to keep one for their own use, that is the only review that matters.
The Wren is everything the Traveller's Range has been building toward. The structured build of The Curator -- internal sleeves, full-length stitching, four spine elastics -- and then one thing more: a raw edge front pocket, cut from the same hide as the cover and left exactly as it came. No finishing. No two identical.
Pick it up. The weight of it is right in a way that is hard to name until you have held it. You will smell the leather before you open it. The raw edge of the pocket will darken and soften with use until it looks like it has always been exactly this colour.
The pocket holds whatever needs to stay close. A folded page. Something you're working through. Something you haven't named yet.
The blue wrens were always around Jess's childhood home in the Adelaide Hills -- small, territorial, completely at home in the landscape. The brand took its name from them. This notebook took its name from the brand. There is a logic to that.
Seventh generation on the same piece of country. Still making things by hand. Still leaving the edges honest.
Available in A6, A5, A4, and B6. Most people choose A5 -- the size Jess carries every day.
Initials pressed into the front panel using a traditional hot embossing machine -- a method unchanged since the 1880s. No foil, no ink -- just heat, pressure, and time. On the Wren, with its raw pocket and considered build, the embossing is the last thing that happens before it leaves the studio. After that, it belongs entirely to the person whose initials are in the leather.
- Internal leather sleeves with full-length stitching
- Raw edge front pocket, no two identical
- 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
