The Mute Books (Libri Muti) collection by Slow Design features notebooks made completely by hand in Florence, Italy using time honoured printing and binding techniques. Choosing your own cover from among the selection of literary classics will inspire you to record your own story, thoughts, lists, or ideas. They colour the edges of the book block by hand, a very nice touch reminiscent of the ancient craft of bookbinding.

Cover: painting details from a Renaissance master hand-coloured slice : blue

Bound notebook - Canvas Cover - 1521cm 160 pages

Blank soft white pages, 80 gsm

Exposed spine stitching with lay-flat construction, hand coloured page edges

'Without words, without writing, and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity' Hermann Hesse

• Slow products are proudly and slowly handcrafted in Tuscany. Founders Roberto di Filitto and Nathalie Schneider design a wide variety of pieces and produce them using the traditional techniques and skills of local craftsmen. Slow research into these lost arts allows them to restore and reinvent the commonest of objects, giving them a new vigour and spirit.