Persephone (Crisscross)

Note & Sketchbook

Featuring decorative sewing and a patterned cover this Crisscross notebook has 128 pages of 140 gsm acid free cartridge paper and is suitable for writing and drawing. We’ve chosen the Cambridge Imprint Persephone cornflower & red patterned paper.

Crisscross binding is inspired by Japanese stab sewing. It was invented by Ann Goy in the mid 1980s, who wanted to create the look of stab sewing in a book that could fully open.

The method has been called Secret Belgian as a result of the generosity of the inventor and the charms of the book itself. Ann showed the structure to others, who liked it so much they passed it on to others who passed it on but only its country of origin was retained.

Ann’s Crisscross binding spread worldwide, under its mysterious name. Until bookbinders Hedi Kyle and Emily Martin, long considered experts in the method, revealed they’d found the original inventor who was indeed Belgian but a secret no more. Ann Goy prefers that we use the original name for her method and we’ve adopted it here at Ink & Page.

Persephone paper is an original Cambridge Imprint design created in 2014 for Persephone Books, celebrated independent publisher of undeservedly forgotten women’s writing of the twentieth century. Persephone books are elegant in their uniform covers of gentle grey, each hiding a different patterned end paper within. This Persephone design has an appropriately early twentieth century Bloomsbury feel about it.

Dimensions: 15.5cm x 10.8cm x 2.2cm

Also available as a desktop size book
Please contact us if you would like to order one