This hard-back journal is made with original hand-marbled half-linen bookcloth. The bookcloth was marbled using the oldest form of marbling, the beautiful Japanese art of suminagashi. This technique uses plain water as the 'canvas', whose currents twist and shape the floating ink to give it a distinctively fluid, smokey look. The bookcloth makes the binding extremely durable and the ink is light-fast so the design won't fade. All our marbled papers and books are carefully handmade in our south London studio.