Enviro Recycled Wirobound Sketchbooks from Artway

Extremely dense heavyweight self greyboard covers with silver WIRO spine. Contains 70 sides. We use the same heavyweight 165gsm 100% recycled cartridge paper in all of our ENVIRO sketchbooks. This premium recycled cartridge 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.

ALL of our ENVIRO books are produced using locally sourced quality recycled material to considerably reduce our carbon footprint adding to the credentials of our ENVIRO products. We like to think that we take sustainability and renewable issues seriously and endeavour, where possible, to act in a positive manner to the environment.

This book is bound with a metal silver WIRO spine. WIRO binding provides extra expandability in the spine to attach added material (cuttings/swatches etc) to internal pages. It allows for the book to be completely folded round on itself taking up minimum desktop footprint. Pages can be easily pulled out should you need to. Small wiro loops hold the book better together but offer limited expandability whilst larger wiro loops provide better expandability but can make the book feel very floppy. We use a 3/4" WIRO which we believe is the best size for this number of pages to provide a happy compromise between structure and practical usage. Please remember however that a WIRO bind is less secure than a casebound book as the WIRO is pliable and will distort / break down without care. 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. Too much insertion will however render the binding useless as its tolerance will be exceeded.

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. If you require your work to be absolutely flat then we suggest you use heavier, purpose made papers designed to take wet media or to 'stretch' your cartridge wet over a rigid flat board using brown gum tape on all edges.

We cannot guarantee that the paper is 100% acid-free and would be suspicious of those who make the claim that their recycled book is! The paper is produced from paper waste from mixed sources. Some of the content may well be acid free however a percentage will always have some acid content in it. Having said that, chalk does get added to the paper pulp during production to neutralise acidity and keep it to a minimum - however, hand on heart, we cannot claim that it is 100% acid free.