Product Review

Black wibalin cloth covered WIROBOUND sketchbook in portrait format with a metal silver wiro. Available in A5 Portrait and Landscape, A4 Portrait and Landscape, A3 Portrait and 285 x 285mm Square

Features

• They contain 96 sides of heavyweight 170gsm / 105lb acid free cartridge paper
• This premium paper has sufficient tooth (surface texture) to hold soft media but not so much as to hinder finer, graphic work thus making it suitable for all dry applications.
• These books are bound with a silver 1" wiro which provides a good balance between structure and practical usage
• Wiro binding provides the expansion required to attache added materials (cuttings, swatches etc) to internal pages. It also allows pages to be easily removed and for the book to be folded completely around on itself to take up minimum space
• Covering the board with the wibalin cloth reduces moisture getting to the greyboard beneath and therefore restricts warping.

Looking after your Sketchbook

• We recommend that users get in to the habit of manually closing the wire loops on a regular basis particularly if their books have a good number of pages with added material
• We often get asked if you can use wet media (watercolour/ink etc) in our books. Cartridge papers are not the ideal surface for such applications, lacking the strength and rigidity required, however if you don't mind a bit of buckling as the paper dries out then it's not a problem. Our heavier cartridge certainly helps to resist these effects although the wetter the surface the more it will be affected.