ARKADEMIE - MAKER OF FINE LEATHER JOURNALS, SKETCHBOOKS, NOTEBOOK COVERS & ACCESSORIES

Get our Signature HERITAGE and PICCOLO Leather Journal Sketchbook & Notebook Cover Collections featuring the legendary Italian Fabriano and English St. Cuthberts Mill Papers with robust Full-Grained, Vegetable-Tanned Cowhide and Buffalo Leather Covers of Asian and European origins.

STUDIO ARKADEMIE COLLECTION

The SOMERSET Leather Watercolour Sketchbook

Premium grade artist's watercolour sketchbook in B5 portrait format.   The paper block is comprised of 46-page, 190 gsm, 100% cotton-content, hand-deckled Saunders Waterford Cold-Pressed paper from the legendary 300-year-old English St. Cuthberts Mill.  The paper is versatile and suitable for water-based media sketching and drawing such as ink, marker, gouache, acrylic and watercolour.  Each signature of the paper stock is meticulously hand-stitched and bound to perfect alignment. The cover is made with natural, full-grained vegetable-tanned buffalo leather - robust and is ideal for outdoor usage and storage - and patina beautifully over time.

Ancona and the Legendary FABRIANO Paper Mill

Ancona is the Italian province where the legendary Fabriano Paper Mill is situated.  The Fabriano mill is arguably the oldest paper mill in Europe with nearly 750 years of continuous innovative and production history whose papers were used and endorsed by masters such as Michelangelo, DaVinci and Raphael. Embrace an artistic heritage when you possess an Ancona Sketchbook!

Paper is the heart of the Sketchbook

The Ancona Artist's Sketchbook uses the Fabriano Rosapina Ivory 220gsm Print-Making and Mixed-Media stock to support a wide spectrum of artists' and designers' media, including light washes of watercolour. It has a lightly textured surface with enhanced absorpbancy suitable for most dry and wet media. The tinted colour paper, which is comfortable on the eyes, makes it ideal for outdoor sketching, drawing and painting. Hand-deckled edges add to the hand-made aesthetics of the sketchbook.

Naturally Vegetable Tanned Leathers Are Beautiful Naturally.

Natural full-grained, vegetable tanned leather is unique because the process of tanning and treatment enhances the natural grain patterns and imparts distinctive characteristics and individuality onto each hide.

Leather, being a natural product, records its unique history through scratch marks, wrinkles, insects bites, healed skins and stain marks found on the skin’s surface. These markings are as unique as fingerprints and are proof of authenticity of the full-grained leather.

Over time, the leather will mature and acquire a beautiful patinated lustre that is unique of the vegetable-tanned leather.   With regular oiling and polishing, it will last for decades.

 

 

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Our Story

Arkademie began as a humble craft interest and soon developed into a dedicated facility focusing on the designing and handcrafting of journals, sketchbooks and stationery for designers, architects, artists, writers and the creative professionals. While most journals and sketchbooks depreciate in quality and structure after several years of use, we aim to produce journals and sketchbooks that last for a lifetime. We believe that the design and written contents created by our users should be preserved for and beyond their entire creative periods. The value of their journals and sketchbooks should only increase with time.

100% Handcrafted Details

Designed and handcrafted entirely in Singapore, the products from our facility represent our dedication in the quality of our manufacture and preserving the most valuable in the design and artistic work - the creative process. Just like our clients, our artisans are adament in fully handcrafting the products, paying close attention to the choice of materials - leather, paper and threads - and the finishing of the leather covers and closures.

Lifetime Guarantee

All our vegetable tanned leather goods are made from buffalo and cowhides, known for their robustness and durability, from reputable tanneries from the Asian and European regions, and are guaranteed for a lifetime of use. With regular oiling and maintenance, our leather items will be able to last many decades. Conditioning and burnishing service is also provided free for our leather goods, to ensure a lifetime of dedicated performance and protection for the creative contents they hold.

Our Bespoke Collection

Functionality is Timeless. We believe that timelessness is a quality as essential as any pursuit in excellence. Every design should endure because endurance begets character. Create your personal heritage with customization of your leather products. If you like to custom made a leather item, reach us at contact@arkademie.com and we will be most happy to chat with you on your design.