Dear Everyone ~

Hahnemühle Bugra is one of my absolute all-time favourite papers for bookbinding, and also for painting & drawing. In the paper world, Hahnemühle is considered a pastel paper, with a felty finish on one side and a laid finish on the other. I myself am fond of it for fountain pen, wild for it for watercolour, and so on and on. Yes, you could say I have a penchant for it. I am drawn to it. Hahnemühle accepts all manner of mediums marvelously.

Let me add that I am also gaga for the way it glues. Hahnemühle is my paper of choice in my case-binding workshops, for students’ signatures, precisely because it glues so nicely—providing a wonderful experience for novices gluing their first end-papers.

In 2015, when I began to teach the Buttonhole-stitch book, one of the options I offered was to make a book using all 16 colours of the Hahnemhle Bugra, times 2, for a total of 32 signatures.

A year or so later, whoa and woe, Hahnemühle decided to discontinue all but five of the 16 luscious colours, figuratively breaking my heart. But now, all 16 colours are being made again. To herald the Hahnemühle revival, I have made a great array of Hahnemühle pads. They are beyond colourful. They are, in happy fact, stripe-tacular. Some pads feature four colours, some feature three, and a few feature just two alternating colours, looking quite dessert-like.

Celebrate the arrival of spring with a delicious Hahnemühle pad: 120 4 x 7¼ sheets, ready to do your doodling or other bidding. The pad is mounted on an uber-thick piece of binders board, for a total weight of slightly above half a pound. Not to provoke a pad panic, but when they are gone, they won’t be back this season.

Heavenly Housemade Hahnemühle Pad

Padding right along, Bari