Journals & sketchbooks

Archival journals made from rescued cotton scraps.

Banana leather covers. Super-heavy handmade pages. Built for writers, artists, and counselors — and better for the planet.

Archival journals made from rescued cotton scraps.

Rescued cotton

Pages made from garment industry scraps

Banana leather covers

Naturally dyed, plastic-free covers

Refillable

Lie-flat binding with snap closure

Archival quality

Acid-free paper for ink, pencil, and color

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Find your notebook

Travel or desk sizes. Lined, unlined, or dot-grid. Covers you can refill for years.

Journals and sketchbooks as unique as the thoughts you put in them.

The super-heavy, rich, textured paper is a joy to write on and helps undo environmental damage.

Practical and Beautiful

  • Refillable covers
  • Multiple size options for travel or home
  • Lined, unlined, and dot-grid options
  • 112 Pages
  • Lie-flat binding
  • Snap closure
  • Ribbon book mark
  • Inside cover document envelope

Actually help the environment

  • Banana Leather covers made from reclaimed, naturally-shed banana stalks combined with wool and cotton scraps
  • Pages made from rescued cotton scraps from the garment industry
  • Naturally plastic-free
  • Cover colors made from natural dyes

Extra Heavy, Archival Papers

  • Super heavy 300 GSM Weight Paper.
  • Unbleached (off-white) cotton fiber paper
  • Resists smudging
  • Naturally archival acid-free paper
  • Performs beautifully with pencil, charcoal, ink, and many other writing instruments, ink and color media.

Three t-shirts worth of cotton equals one Rewrite notebook

Each travel-sized Rewrite notebook keeps almost 1 pound of cotton scraps from going to a landfill or burn pit. That's almost 3 tee-shirts worth of cotton per notebook.

Three t-shirts worth of cotton equals one Rewrite notebook

Our Process

1. Rescue Cotton Scraps

1. Rescue Cotton Scraps

When cotton is cut to prepare clothing, scraps are usually discarded or burned in heaps outside the factory. Rewrite collects those scraps to reprocess into paper.

2. Pulping & Deckling

2. Pulping & Deckling

Scraps are shredded into pulp that is gathered, cast, pressed and hung for drying.

3. Sorting, Cutting & Binding

3. Sorting, Cutting & Binding

Sheets and cover materials are inspected for bumps and stray materials, removed and recycled while quality papers and bindings are assembled into beautiful journals and sketchbooks.

Certified Good for the Planet

Don't just take our word for it...Our workshop is inspected and verified by the leading international sustainability and ethical standards organizations.

Certified Good for the Planet

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