A5 notebook - Enshu orimono 05
A5 KAKIMORI notebook with a hardcover in Enshu Orimono fabric (L152 × H215 mm), limited edition. Sewn binding allows the notebook to lay flat, OK Fools pages compatible with fountain pens, 5 mm grid, and ribbon bookmark.
Limited Edition Cover Highlighting Enshu Orimono
Section-sewn binding allowing the notebook to lay perfectly flat
Pages made of paper compatible with fountain pens
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 precious part of your collection.
Inside, you will find blank pages in OK Fools, which open perfectly flat thanks to the section-sewn binding. The 5 mm grid supports you in 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.
Carefully crafted from the thread plying stage to achieve a soft, handwoven texture, this fabric captivates with its rich colors and variety of threads.
Producer: Shinchi Orimono
This fabric is carefully crafted from the thread plying stage, combining several different types of threads to create a soft, handwoven texture. The design and color combinations have been refined through multiple prototypes. Due to the thickness of the threads, the fabric is woven slowly on a low-speed loom.
Plying: the process of twisting several strands of thread together to form the final yarn.
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.
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 using techniques passed down since the Edo period in the western part of Shizuoka Prefecture. Thanks to the region’s mild climate, cotton and indigo cultivation flourished, 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 very close to the Kakimori shop, 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 distinctive features lies in the type of loom used. While modern fast looms produce more efficiently uniform fabrics, Enshu Orimono continues to be woven on old shuttle looms, where a shuttle passes through the weft thread. Although slower and less efficient, these looms produce tightly woven fabrics with a textured surface that reveals the richness of the patterns. Even today, the region hosts the largest concentration of traditional shuttle looms, as well as a great diversity 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.
Five fabrics were chosen by Itohen for Kakimori, from four different factories.
SPECIFICATIONS
- Pages: Grid (pure white OK Fools), 64 sheets / 128 pages
- Material: 100% cotton
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Features
- Dimensions
- L152 × W11 × H215 mm
- Weight
- 255 g
- Material
- Cotton, Paper
- Color
- Red
- Origin
- Tokyo, Japan
- Brand since
- 2010
A notebook that lays flat when opened
Kakimori has been writing since 2010 in Kuramae, a workshop district in Tokyo. The A5 notebook has a hardcover and is section-sewn, so it opens perfectly flat, and its OK Fools paper pages accept fountain pens. A lightly printed 5 mm grid guides writing, sketches, and diagrams, and a ribbon bookmark holds your place. Four limited edition covers showcase Enshu orimono, a traditional Japanese weaving. For the pocket, the Mini note refills carry the same idea in B7 size, available as a detachable pad or a spiral notebook, to slip into a cover you keep.
KAKIMORI NOTEBOOKS
What makes these notebooks
Sewn in sections
The A5 notebook is bound with sewn signatures, allowing it to lay perfectly flat when opened. The page stays in place without needing to be held.
Pages in OK Fools
Inside the A5 notebook, blank pages made of OK Fools paper, compatible with fountain pens.
A 5 mm grid
The print is light and discreet, so it guides without imposing. The 5 mm spacing is suitable for handwriting as well as for sketches and diagrams.
B7 Mini Note Refills
Two styles to choose from: a block with detachable pages or a spiral notebook that keeps your writings intact. The B7 size fits perfectly in your hand and slips into the Mini Note covers.
Hardcover, with ribbon
The A5 notebook is a hardcover binder designed for daily use, with an integrated ribbon bookmark. It naturally fits on a shelf and lasts for years.
Enshu Orimono blankets
Four A5 notebooks feature a limited edition cover that highlights Enshu orimono, a traditional Japanese weaving. The gray one remains plain.