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Limited Edition Cover Featuring Enshu Orimono

Section-sewn binding allows the notebook to open perfectly flat
Pages made of fountain pen-friendly paper
Easy-to-use 5 mm grid
Light and discreet printing
Integrated ribbon bookmark

THE COVER CONCEPT

A hardcover notebook, beautifully designed for daily use. We envisioned it as an object that naturally finds its place on a shelf and, over the years, becomes a treasured part of your collection.

Inside, you’ll find blank pages in OK Fools paper, which opens perfectly flat thanks to the section-sewn binding. The 5 mm grid supports all your tasks: handwriting, sketches, diagrams, and more. The light blue-gray printing highlights your words while remaining subtle enough not to show up during scanning.

Each notebook comes in a protective case that preserves the cover. The ribbon bookmark helps you easily find your page. Every detail has been thoughtfully designed to offer the feeling of a book you love to return to.

Enshu Orimono: A Traditional Japanese Weaving

Enshu Orimono is a traditional Japanese weaving art passed down since the Edo period in the western part of Shizuoka Prefecture. Thanks to the region’s mild climate, cotton and indigo cultivation have thrived for centuries, giving rise to a dynamic textile industry. Production continues today on traditional looms, allowing for a wide variety of woven expressions.

This moleskine fabric is skillfully crafted from Indian cotton to offer a luxuriously soft touch.

Producer: K Textile
A moleskine fabric made from Indian cotton. The absence of glossy treatment enhances the softness reminiscent of suede, and a specialized washing process gives it a relaxed, slightly worn texture.

Moleskine: thick cotton fabric with a soft nap and slight sheen, reminiscent of mole fur
Washing: finishing process that gives the fabric a pre-washed feel

From Thread to Notebook: A Story Woven by Enshu Orimono

Kakimori notebooks are designed like fashion collections, with fabrics carefully selected for each season or collection. Previous editions have featured textiles from fashion brands, kimono makers, and traditional fabric producers. We are excited to introduce our latest collaboration: Enshu Orimono.

Enshu Orimono is a Japanese textile woven with craftsmanship passed down since the Edo period in the western part of Shizuoka Prefecture. Thanks to the region’s mild climate, cotton and indigo cultivation prospered, giving rise to the cotton weaving industry at that time.

We discovered Enshu Orimono through Itohen, a local curation company dedicated to promoting Japanese craftsmanship. Located near our store, the company runs Sanchi No Gakko (Regional Production School), which offers comprehensive textile production training for those wishing to enter the textile and apparel industries. Itohen also participates in various media projects, exhibitions, and textile-related events.

To design this new collection, the Itohen team helped us select a range of Enshu Orimono fabrics, allowing us to learn more about these beautiful traditional textiles.

Enshu Orimono is renowned for its cotton weaving, and one of its unique features lies in the type of loom used. While modern high-speed looms produce uniform fabrics more efficiently, Enshu Orimono continues to be woven on traditional shuttle looms, where a shuttle passes through the weft thread. Although slower and less efficient, these looms create tightly woven fabrics with a textured surface that reveals the richness of the patterns. Even today, the region houses the highest concentration of traditional shuttle looms, along with a wide variety of textile factories.

The Itohen team visits each factory and handpicks new fabrics still in development. Each workshop has its own strengths and characteristics, allowing the discovery of unique textiles as well as the history and passion of each artisan.

Here are the five fabrics selected by Itohen for Kakimori, from four different factories, and what makes each special.

SPECIFICATIONS

• Dimensions: L152 × D11 × H215 mm
• Weight: 255 g
• Pages: Grid (pure white OK Fools), 64 sheets / 128 pages
• Material: 100% cotton
• Manufacturing: Shinchi Orimono (fabric), Seibundo (binding/printing)
• Country of Manufacture: Japan

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