{"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. The same plain cover with lined pages is the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/wooden-notebook\"\u003eplain wooden notebook\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256689967235,"sku":"SCW010","price":39.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/6-scaled-2.jpg?v=1780866673","url":"https:\/\/creatifwood.fr\/en\/products\/sketchbook","provider":"Creatifwood","version":"1.0","type":"link"}