A5 Notebook - Enshu Orimono 05

Limited edition cover highlighting Enshu Orimono

Section-sewn binding allowing the notebook to open perfectly flat
Pages made of fountain pen-friendly paper
Easy-to-use 5 mm grid
Light and discreet printing
Integrated ribbon bookmark

THE COVER CONCEPT

A hardcover notebook, beautifully designed for everyday use. We envisioned it as an object that naturally finds its place on a shelf and becomes, over the years, a treasured part of your collection.

Inside, you will find blank pages in OK Fools, which open perfectly flat thanks to the section-sewn binding. The 5 mm grid supports you in all your tasks: handwriting, sketches, diagrams, and more. The light blue-gray printing highlights your words while remaining subtle enough not to show up during scanning.

Each notebook comes in a protective case that preserves the cover. The ribbon bookmark helps you easily find your page. Every detail has been thoughtfully designed to offer the feeling of a book you love to return to.

Carefully crafted from the thread twisting stage to achieve a soft, handwoven texture, this fabric captivates with its rich colors and variety of threads.

Producer: Shinchi Orimono
This fabric is carefully crafted from the thread twisting stage, combining several different types of threads to create a soft, handwoven texture. The design and color combinations have been refined through multiple prototypes. Due to the thickness of the threads, the fabric is woven slowly on a low-speed loom.

Plying: the process of twisting several strands of thread together to form the final yarn.

Enshu Orimono: a traditional Japanese weaving

Enshu Orimono is a traditional Japanese weaving art passed down since the Edo period in the western part of Shizuoka Prefecture. Thanks to the region’s mild climate, cotton and indigo cultivation have thrived for centuries, giving rise to a dynamic textile industry. Production continues today on traditional looms, allowing for a wide variety of woven expressions.

The rich black shade of this fabric is achieved by coating linen threads with traditional sumi ink, offering a finish that will develop a beautiful patina and age gracefully over time.

Producer: Koyama
This fabric is woven from medium-weight linen threads, then coated on both sides with traditional Japanese sumi ink, which gradually fades and naturally evolves with use.

From thread to notebook: a story woven by Enshu Orimono

Kakimori notebooks are designed like fashion collections, with fabrics carefully selected for each season or collection. Previous editions have featured textiles from fashion brands, kimono makers, and traditional fabric producers. We are excited to introduce our latest collaboration: Enshu Orimono.

Enshu Orimono is a Japanese textile woven using techniques passed down since the Edo period in the western part of Shizuoka Prefecture. Thanks to the region’s mild climate, cotton and indigo cultivation prospered, giving rise to the cotton weaving industry at that time.

We discovered Enshu Orimono through Itohen, a local curation company dedicated to promoting Japanese craftsmanship. Located near our store, the company runs Sanchi No Gakko (Regional Production School), which offers comprehensive textile production training for those wishing to enter the textile and apparel industries. Itohen also participates in various media projects, exhibitions, and textile-related events.

To design this new collection, the Itohen team helped us select a range of Enshu Orimono fabrics, allowing us to learn more about these beautiful traditional textiles.

Enshu Orimono is renowned for its cotton weaving, and one of its distinctive features lies in the type of loom used. While modern high-speed looms produce uniform fabrics more efficiently, Enshu Orimono continues to be woven on old shuttle looms, where a shuttle passes through the weft thread. Although slower and less efficient, these looms produce tightly woven fabrics with a textured surface that reveals the richness of the patterns. Even today, the region hosts the largest concentration of traditional shuttle looms, as well as a wide variety of textile factories.

The Itohen team visits each factory and handpicks new fabrics still in development. Each workshop has its own strengths and characteristics, allowing the discovery of unique textiles as well as the history and passion of each artisan.

Here are the five fabrics selected by Itohen for Kakimori, from four different factories, and what makes each of them special.

SPECIFICATIONS

• Dimensions: W152 × D11 × H215 mm
• Weight: 255 g
• Pages: Grid (pure white OK Fools), 64 sheets / 128 pages
• Material: 100% cotton
• Manufacturing: Shinchi Orimono (fabric), Seibundo (binding / printing)
• Country of manufacture: Japan