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.

Materials that feel as good as they do good

Practical details and planet-minded materials — in one place.

  • Refillable banana leather covers with snap closure
  • 300 GSM archival cotton paper — ink, pencil, and color
  • Pages from rescued garment-industry cotton scraps
  • Naturally dyed, plastic-free materials
  • Lie-flat binding, ribbon bookmark, inside envelope
  • Travel and desk sizes

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

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

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

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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