Renaissance leather bindings were often dyed rich shades of red to highlight the intricate gold-tooled embellishments that adorned them. We have created our Foiled address book cover in this spirit, capturing the vibrancy and lightness of design characteristic of these antique books.

The timeless beauty of an antique leather journal is brought into the present on the cover of this intricately embellished, leather-like cover.

Gold tooling as a decorative technique is a hallmark of Renaissance-era bookbinding and design. With a bold foliage pattern set against a deep red background, our Foiled cover pays homage to this delicate craft of gold tooling, originally brought to Europe via the flourishing trade routes to the East.

When we were first beginning to make Paperblanks journals, we found a piece of William Shakespeare’s handwriting and just knew it could become an inspiring journal cover. Soon we added designs featuring the writing of Ernest Hemingway and Jane Austen and created a series that would become our Embellished Manuscripts Collection. These first covers were minimalist designs with the literary manuscripts written in black ink against beige paper. Eventually, our creative urges started to take over and we sought to play around with the design by adding a gold frame.

These days we are free to play around with frame shape and background colour, and this initial beige and black design continues to provide the backbone for two of our most enduringly popular collections.

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