{"title":"Wooden Sketchbooks","description":"\u003ch3\u003eA drawing pad you keep the cover of\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBirch plywood covers, engraved and cut, holding a blank A5 block on rings. The rings open so the block can be lifted out and replaced when it is full, and the cover carries on.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThat matters more with a sketchbook than with a notebook. A drawing pad is used up quickly, and the covers of most are card that is finished when the paper is.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy rings rather than a sewn spine?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBecause a drawing needs the page flat. Rings let a sheet lie completely open, which a sewn block will not do near the spine, and the gutter is where a drawing that crosses a spread goes wrong. They also let a sheet be removed cleanly, which matters when a drawing is finished and needs to be scanned, framed or given away. Every sketchbook here is ring-bound, including the ones with a leather spine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat paper is inside?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBlank, with nothing printed on the sheets; that is the difference between a sketchbook and a notebook in our range. Our own sketchbooks carry 200 g\/m² watercolour paper, heavy enough to take a wash without cockling, so they work for travel painting as well as pencil and ink. A few of the other designs carry 80 or 90 g\/m² drawing paper for dry media; each product page says which.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe cover as a working surface\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBirch plywood is stiff enough to draw against and light enough to hold in one hand, so the sketchbook works on a knee, on a train or standing in front of something. It is also the reason these survive being carried: a sketchbook lives in a bag with pencils, and a card cover comes back bent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe engraving is cut rather than printed, so it stays through the years in which the cover outlasts several blocks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhere do they get used?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn a journey most naturally: a sketchbook carried on a trip is a different record from a camera, and the wooden cover is the part that comes home intact. Also life drawing, design work, teaching, and anyone who works standing up. The rigid cover is what those have in common.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"sketchbook-crea-feuilles-4-anneaux","title":"Sketchbook Crea'Leaves, 4 Rings","description":"\u003ch3\u003eThe same bucket, on four rings\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe tipped bucket and its fall of leaves from the two-ring Crea'Leaves, on four rings instead. Same warm brown birch, same drawing: a bucket on its side, a splash of water, and maple and oak leaves tumbling down the cover with drops between them, under the word SKETCHBOOK and the maker's mark.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat the extra rings change\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFour rings hold the block along more of its edge than two, so a full block hangs straight, a page turns without twisting on its holes, and the two boards stay square to each other. The trade-off is a wider ring line and a book that closes a shade less flat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf the sketchbook lives in a bag and gets used hard, take the four. If it stays on a desk and gets opened often, either works.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAnd the paper changes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the version with 200 g\/m² watercolour paper, heavy enough to take a wash, where the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/sketchbook-2-loops-crea-leaves\"\u003etwo-ring Crea'Leaves\u003c\/a\u003e carries 90 g\/m² drawing paper for dry media. If you paint, this is the one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eHow it is built\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo birch boards held by the rings alone, no hinge and no spine, so the book opens completely flat and folds back on itself. 50 blank sheets, A5, about 560 g. When the block is full, open the rings and fit a new one; the boards carry on.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256687640707,"sku":"CNSKH347785","price":39.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/D1_8D_D0_BA_D1_80_D0_B0_D0_BD_D0_B0-2021-04-30-_D0_B2-12.10.21-e1625063005823.png?v=1780866615"},{"product_id":"sketchbook-chouette-4-anneaux","title":"Sketchbook Owl, 4 Rings","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAn owl on four rings\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWeathered grey birch with an owl engraved facing forward, its feathers drawn as rows of repeating shapes – scales, arcs, dots – rather than as plumage, perched on a branch across the lower cover. The word SKETCHBOOK and the maker's mark are engraved above it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe binding is exposed: two birch boards and four dark rings through the left edge, no spine at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy exposed rings\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo boards on rings is the plainest build in the range. There is nothing between the boards but the block, so the book opens flatter than any hinged cover and folds right back on itself, and a sheet lifts out with no spine in the way. It is the working sketchbook of the range rather than the keepsake.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFour rings rather than two hold the block along more of its edge, so a full block hangs straight and a page turns without twisting on its holes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe same owl, another binding\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe owl also comes as the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/owl-leather-bound-wooden-notebook\"\u003eOwl leather-bound wooden notebook\u003c\/a\u003e: lined pages, a riveted leather spine and a strap, for the desk rather than the bag.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePaper and format\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e50 blank sheets of 80 g\/m² drawing paper – the lightest paper in the range, for pencil, ink and marker rather than washes. A5, about 500 g. When the block is full, open the rings and fit a new one; the boards carry on.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256687706243,"sku":"CNSKH347786","price":39.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/D1_8D_D0_BA_D1_80_D0_B0_D0_BD_D0_B0-2021-05-24-_D0_B2-10.28.05-e1625064886666.png?v=1780866616"},{"product_id":"sketchbook-crea-feuilles-2-anneaux","title":"Sketchbook Crea'Leaves, 2 Rings","description":"\u003ch3\u003eA bucket of leaves\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWarm brown birch with an engraved bucket tipped on its side and pouring – but what comes out is a splash of water that turns, halfway down, into a fall of leaves: maple, oak and smaller ones, with drops between them. The drawing sits at the centre of the cover under the word SKETCHBOOK and the maker's mark.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is the one design in the range that is a visual joke rather than a subject.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eTwo rings\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo birch boards on two exposed rings: the lightest and simplest binding here – less metal, a narrower ring line, a book that closes flat. Pages still lie completely open and lift out cleanly. A two-ring block fans more freely than a four-ring one, which some people like for quick sketching and others find loose; the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/sketchbook-4-loops-crea-leaves\"\u003efour-ring Crea'Leaves\u003c\/a\u003e is the same drawing for the second group.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eHow it is built\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNo hinge and no spine: the two boards are held by the rings alone, so the book opens flatter than any hinged cover and folds back on itself. When the block is full, open the rings and fit a new one; the boards carry on.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePaper and format\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e50 blank sheets of 90 g\/m² drawing paper, for pencil, ink and marker rather than washes; the four-ring version carries 200 g\/m² watercolour paper, so the choice between the two is paper as much as binding. A5, about 510 g.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256687739011,"sku":"CNSKH347781","price":39.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/CNSKH347785.png?v=1780866618"},{"product_id":"sketchbook-pivoines","title":"Sketchbook Spring","description":"\u003ch3\u003eFlowers in one corner\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWarm brown birch with a bouquet engraved in fine line in the lower right corner – peonies, a tulip on its stalk, buds, leaves and small berries – climbing partway up the right edge. The rest of the cover, well over half of it, is plain wood, with the word SKETCHBOOK engraved top left.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat is unusual here and deliberate. Most covers in this range fill their surface; this one puts everything in one corner and leaves the grain to do the rest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy the empty space works\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA cover that is mostly bare reads as restrained rather than unfinished, provided the drawing is fine enough to hold its own. This one is drawn at the density of a pen sketch, so it does not need scale to carry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is the quietest design in the range, and the one for a recipient whose taste you are unsure of.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eHow it is built\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA one-piece birch cover scored along the spine so that it bends like a hinge, with the block on rings inside: a page lies flat, a finished drawing lifts out, and a new block goes in when this one is full. The same bouquet with lined pages is the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/spring-wooden-notebook\"\u003eSpring wooden notebook\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePaper and format\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e50 blank sheets of 200 g\/m² watercolour paper, heavy enough to take a wash. A5, about 620 g.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256687771779,"sku":"CNSKH347780","price":39.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/DSC00411.jpg?v=1780866619"},{"product_id":"sketchbook-lune","title":"Sketchbook Moon","description":"\u003ch3\u003eA crescent hung with charms\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDeep grey-brown birch with a crescent moon engraved left of centre, opening to the right, its face textured and its rim decorated like a band of jewellery. To the right of it a large eight-pointed star and a scatter of small ones; from its lower horn hang chains and garlands of charms – crystals, a pendant, a small eye, a cut gem at the very bottom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe crescent is the burnt part. It is engraved darker than the wood around it, a dark moon on a dark sky, and the stars and chains around it are drawn in fine line. The word SKETCHBOOK is engraved top left.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhere the design sits\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMoon left of centre, stars up and to the right, charms trailing below: the design runs the full height of the cover on a slight diagonal, which gives it a direction a centred motif would not have.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eHow it is built\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA one-piece birch cover scored along the spine so that it bends like a hinge, with the block on rings inside: a page lies flat, a finished drawing lifts out, and a new block goes in when this one is full. The same crescent with lined pages is the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/moon-wooden-notebook\"\u003eMoon wooden notebook\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePaper and format\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e50 blank sheets of 90 g\/m² drawing paper, for pencil, ink and marker rather than washes. A5, about 580 g.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256688197763,"sku":"CNSKH347782","price":39.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/DSC00386.jpg?v=1780866621"},{"product_id":"sketchbook-loup-dos-cuir","title":"Sketchbook Wolf, Leather Spine","description":"\u003ch3\u003eA wolf in facets, in landscape\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe most graphic cover in the range, and one of two cut in landscape rather than portrait. Pale grey-washed birch with the grain showing through, a howling wolf drawn in flat facets like folded paper, and behind it a geometric emblem rather than a scene: a hexagon around the wolf, a triangle holding a smaller inverted triangle above, a double zigzag at its left.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe binding is different too. A black leather spine held by four brass rivets, a leather strap that closes across the front on a brass stud, and the word SKETCHBOOK with the maker's mark engraved top left.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWide rather than tall\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA landscape page suits a wide drawing – a skyline, a shoreline, a panorama – and a spread that runs across both pages in a way a portrait format cannot. The other landscape cover in the range is the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/alpine-sketchbook\"\u003eAlpine\u003c\/a\u003e, with a mountain scene and a wooden hinge instead of leather.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe strap\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA stud fastening rather than an elastic. It holds the covers shut against a bag full of pencils, which is why this is the design that travels best. Inside, the block rides on rings: a page lies flat, a finished drawing lifts out, and a new block goes in when this one is full.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePaper and format\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e50 blank sheets of 90 g\/m² drawing paper, for pencil, ink and marker rather than washes; if you want watercolour paper in a landscape book, take the Alpine. Landscape A5, about 570 g.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256688230531,"sku":"CNSKH347783","price":39.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/109029231-e1625063144351.jpg?v=1780866621"},{"product_id":"sketchbook-alpages","title":"Sketchbook Alpine","description":"\u003ch3\u003eMountains along the bottom, and sky\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWarm brown birch in landscape format, with a mountain massif drawn in fine hatched line at the lower left, a smaller range behind it, two small clouds, and a line of conifers in silhouette running the whole width of the lower edge. Above that, nothing: the upper two thirds of the cover are bare wood, with only the word SKETCHBOOK engraved in the corner.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is the sparest design in the range, and the one that reads as landscape rather than as illustration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy the empty sky matters\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe trees are burnt dark, the rock is drawn in line, and everything above the ridge is untouched birch. That is what makes the mountains read as distance rather than as pattern: there is air above them, most of the cover's worth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWho it suits\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnyone who will fill it with landscape. It is the sketchbook to take walking – wide pages for a wide view, and a wooden cover to press against when there is nowhere to sit. The other landscape cover in the range is the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/sketchbook-wolf\"\u003eWolf\u003c\/a\u003e, with a leather spine and a strap, on drawing paper rather than watercolour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePaper and format\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA one-piece birch cover scored along the spine so that it bends like a hinge, with the block on rings inside: a page lies flat, a finished drawing lifts out, and a new block goes in when this one is full. 50 blank sheets of 200 g\/m² watercolour paper, heavy enough to take a wash. Landscape A5, 22.5 × 16 × 4 cm closed, about 600 g.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256688263299,"sku":"CNSKH347779","price":39.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/DSC00422.jpg?v=1780866622"},{"product_id":"sketchbook-dragon","title":"Sketchbook Dragon","description":"\u003ch3\u003eA dragon in flight on the palest wood\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe lightest cover of our five – pale, almost unstained birch – with a dragon engraved in profile, head to the left, wings spread wide, smoke curling from its jaws, and the tail looping once below the body before it ends in a barb.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBecause the wood is pale, the dark engraving has more contrast here than on any other cover we make, and the dragon reads from across a room.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eDrawn in hatching, not filled\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe scales are rows of short curved strokes, the wing membranes are hatched between the bones, the smoke is a few loose curls. The dragon is built from dense line rather than from solid burnt areas, so it reads as a pen drawing burnt into the surface, and it keeps its detail at this size where a filled silhouette would show only an outline.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eHow it is built\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne sheet of birch plywood, scored along the spine with a row of laser cuts so that it bends like a hinge; closed, it reads as a solid block of wood. Inside, a four-ring mechanism screwed to the cover – the two screw heads show on the back, beside our CREATIF mark – holds the block behind a black card leaf. The rings open: a finished drawing lifts out cleanly, and a new block goes in when this one is full. The cover is rigid enough to draw against with no table.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePaper and format\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e50 blank sheets of 200 g\/m² watercolour paper, heavy enough to take a wash. 18.5 × 22 × 4 cm closed, a little over half a kilo. The same dragon with lined pages is the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/wooden-notebook-dragon\"\u003eDragon wooden notebook\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256689836163,"sku":"SCW006","price":39.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/7-scaled-1.jpg?v=1780866667"},{"product_id":"sketchbook-triskel","title":"Sketchbook Triskel","description":"\u003ch3\u003eA triskelion in a burst of rays\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe darkest cover of our five, in grey-brown birch, with a Celtic triskelion at the centre – three spirals around a small triangle, knotwork between the arms – set in a raised disc, and around the disc a field of wavy, flame-like rays carved into the wood like a sunburst.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is the one cover here that is carved rather than drawn. The rays are cut to depth and the disc stands proud of them, so the design catches light and throws shadow as the book is turned; every other design in the range sits on the surface.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat a triskelion is\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThree linked spirals, one of the oldest motifs in European art. It is carved into the stones of Newgrange in Ireland, five thousand years old, long before the Celts, and today it is the emblem of Brittany, on flags, jerseys and shop signs from Brest to Nantes. It has been read as motion, as land, sea and sky, as past, present and future; what it meant to the people who first cut it, nobody knows.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnlike the animals in this range it carries no single agreed meaning, which is part of why it works on a book someone will fill themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eHow it is built\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne sheet of birch plywood, scored along the spine with a row of laser cuts so that it bends like a hinge; closed, it reads as a solid block of wood. Inside, a four-ring mechanism screwed to the cover – the two screw heads show on the back, beside our CREATIF mark – holds the block behind a black card leaf. The rings open: a finished drawing lifts out cleanly, and a new block goes in when this one is full.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePaper and format\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e50 blank sheets of 200 g\/m² watercolour paper, heavy enough to take a wash. 18.5 × 22 × 4 cm closed, a little over half a kilo. The same carved triskelion with lined pages is the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/wooden-notebook-triskel\"\u003eTriskel wooden notebook\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256689868931,"sku":"SCW007","price":39.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/8-scaled-1.jpg?v=1780866668"},{"product_id":"sketchbook-voyage","title":"Sketchbook Travel","description":"\u003ch3\u003eA compass with the journey drawn into it\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHoney-brown birch with a compass rose engraved at the centre and an arrow running through it from top to bottom – head above, fletching below. Around the rose is the journey itself: a small aircraft top left, a mountain range with pines top right, two sailing boats bottom right, and the continents drawn low behind the rose inside a dashed circle. There are no cardinal letters anywhere; the places stand in for them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy it suits a journey\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA wooden cover survives a rucksack in a way card does not, and that matters more on a trip than anywhere else. The paper is watercolour weight, so a page takes a wash of the view on one side and a ticket or a photograph pasted on the other, and the book comes home as the record of the trip rather than as a pad that fell apart on the way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe rigid cover is what makes it work en route: on a train seat, a wall or a knee, there is a board behind the paper.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eHow it is built\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne sheet of birch plywood, scored along the spine with a row of laser cuts so that it bends like a hinge; closed, it reads as a solid block of wood. Inside, a four-ring mechanism screwed to the cover – the two screw heads show on the back, beside our CREATIF mark – holds the block behind a black card leaf. The rings open: a finished drawing lifts out cleanly, and a new block goes in when this one is full.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePaper and format\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e50 blank sheets of 200 g\/m² watercolour paper. 18.5 × 22 × 4 cm closed, roughly A5, the size that fits a day bag and still gives a usable spread; a little over half a kilo. The same compass with lined pages is the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/wooden-notebook-travel\"\u003eTravel wooden notebook\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256689901699,"sku":"SCW008","price":39.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/9-scaled-1.jpg?v=1780866670"},{"product_id":"sketchbook-licorne","title":"Sketchbook Unicorn","description":"\u003ch3\u003eA unicorn framed by blossom\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMid-tone honey birch, a unicorn's head in profile facing right, the horn spiralling up towards the top edge – and clusters of blossom with leaves in two opposite corners, upper left and lower right, so the design crosses the cover on a diagonal. The word SKETCHBOOK sits top right on this one, the only cover of our five where it moves, because the blossom has taken its corner.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe mane is not hair. Every lock is filled with a different ornament – chevrons, scales, dots, spirals – the way a mandala or a zentangle drawing is built, and the eye and the muzzle are drawn the same way. It is a decorative unicorn, not a storybook one: no pastel, no glitter, just line on wood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy the corner blossom matters\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA single central image on a rectangular cover leaves the corners empty and the composition floating. Blossom at two opposite corners pulls the eye across on the diagonal, and the cover reads as composed rather than stamped.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eHow it is built\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne sheet of birch plywood, scored along the spine with a row of laser cuts so that it bends like a hinge; closed, it reads as a solid block of wood. Inside, a four-ring mechanism screwed to the cover – the two screw heads show on the back, beside our CREATIF mark – holds the block behind a black card leaf. The rings open: a finished drawing lifts out cleanly, and a new block goes in when this one is full.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePaper and format\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e50 blank sheets of 200 g\/m² watercolour paper, heavy enough to take a wash. 18.5 × 22 × 4 cm closed, a little over half a kilo. The same unicorn with lined pages is the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/wooden-notebook-unicorn\"\u003eUnicorn wooden notebook\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256689934467,"sku":"SCW009","price":39.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/10-scaled-2.jpg?v=1780866671"},{"product_id":"sketchbook-uni","title":"Sketchbook Plain","description":"\u003ch3\u003eNothing on the cover but the word\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWarm brown birch, the word SKETCHBOOK engraved in a small box at the top left, and no design of any kind. Of all our sketchbooks it is the only one where the wood itself is the whole front.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat you look at instead of a picture is grain: figured birch running the height of the cover, different on every copy, because no two sheets of plywood are alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy plain is a choice\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn engraved cover announces what the book is for before it opens – a dragon says one thing, a compass another. This one says nothing, which is what you want when the contents will be varied, or when the book is going to someone whose subject you cannot guess.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is also the one to buy again. A shelf of plain covers reads as a set; a shelf of different engravings reads as a collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eHow it is built\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe cover is a single sheet of birch plywood, scored along the spine with a row of laser cuts so that it bends like a hinge; closed, the book reads as one solid block of wood. Inside, a four-ring mechanism is screwed to the cover – the two screw heads show on the back, beside our CREATIF mark – and holds the block behind a black card leaf. The rings open, so a finished drawing lifts out cleanly and a new block goes in when this one is full.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBecause the cover is a board, it gets used where a pad does not: on a knee, against a wall, standing in front of the thing being drawn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePaper and format\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e50 blank sheets of 200 g\/m² watercolour paper – heavy enough to take a wash without cockling, so it works for travel painting as well as pencil and ink. 18.5 × 22 × 4 cm closed, a little over half a kilo. 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