Paperblanks Silver Filigree Blush PPink Ultra Lined Journal

The art of filigree is a moving testament to the human drive to ornament in order to delight the eye and the spirit. One can imagine a magistrate in ancient times carrying such a book and using it to keep a record of matters of state as easily as one can see it in pride of place on a well-appointed contemporary desk. The Ultra size (somewhere between A4 and A5) is a perfect desk journal or for putting in a traveling bag.

Intricacy and delicacy combine with repetition to create this silvered and stunning blush pink meditation on the nature of beauty. The word filigree derives from the Latin words filum for thread and granum for seed. The filigree pattern adorning our cover was originally designed and handcrafted in Germany circa 1800. To achieve the gilded and polished motif, a base layer of silver sheets was first die cut, and elabora