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Hark back to the days of luxurious bookbinding with our Blue Luxe cover design. The original book, crafted in the heart of Amsterdam in 1715, was bound in goatskin with opulent gold tooling. This special binding contains a volume of the...
Paperblanks comes to game night! Our iconic designs come to life on playing cards with full-colour printing and metallic inking. With iridescent shine and customized card backs featuring some of our bestselling antique binding designs, our playing cards will...
Discover the ancient Japanese language of flowers with our Natsu design. These intricate details of spring and summer flowers seen on our Rinpa Florals cover are from an 18th-century Japanese paper screen by artist Watanabe Shikō (1683–1755), who painted in...
Experience a piece of European history with this Porto design from our new Portuguese Tiles series. The design reproduced here comes from Porto, Portugal, where azulejos decorate the façades of old houses. Azulejos (meaning “small polished stone”) are painted,...
September has arrived, so you know what that means... it's time to announce our newest fall collection! Fall 2023 brings a diverse new collection of cover art to the Paperblanks collection. From classic Gothic literature to Japanese screen printing and...
In honour of Book Lovers Day on August 9th, we asked our social media followers to share the best books they've read recently, or the books that are at the top of their "To Read" lists. If you're looking for...
Looking to get a head start on 2024? Your Paperblanks planner is ready when you are! With a range of interior planning styles and size formats in our newest and bestselling cover designs, our planners are great tools to help...
What makes a Paperblanks design unique? Is it our cover textures, foiling and debossing? Is it our unique closures, iconic red ribbon or book edge printing? Well yes, all of the above, but mostly what makes a Paperblanks journal so...
As the old saying goes: accessories make everything better. So, whether you’re looking to get more creative with your journal pages, keep your place or take your kit on the go, our latest accessory releases have you covered. We’re excited to...
This regal binding comes from the revered artisans at Sangorski & Sutcliffe, a world-renowned British bindery. The bindery is best known for the bejewelled cover of Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat, forever lost in the sinking of the Titanic! Established in London in...