FRIEND ATELIER: HOW IT WORKS
Friend Atelier will tailor a notebook set for you - down to the letter. Mix and match colours, press your own words straight into the cover, and have it assembled with your favourite notebooks already inside.
SMALL CHOICES, BIG DIFFERENCE
THE FINER DETAILS
Let me step you through each and every detail of building your very own custom folio set.
Folio
Start by selecting your cover
- Format
- Trifold
- Material
- Vegan
- System
- Refillable
LACES
Then mix and match your notebook laces
- Inner lace
- 1
- outer lace
- 2
- MATERIAL
- Elastic
MONOGRAM
Decide what words you'd like pressed
- Method
- Heat press
- Characters
- 18
- Options
- 2
Notebooks
And pick which notebooks to insert
- Size
- A5
- Binding
- Thread sewn
- Quantity
- 4
CHARMS
Before adding the finishing touches
- Plating
- 18K Gold
- Size
- 15-20mm
- Options
- 5
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TRY OUT ATELIER
Ready to start your own custom build?
5 colourways
The Folio Selection
Choose any of our 5 signature folio colours as the starting point for your custom atelier order.
ANATOMY OF A CUSTOM NOTEBOOK SET
THE FINISHED PRODUCT
TRY IT FOR YOURSELF
TAKE ME TO THE ATELIER
Use our online builder tool to see your personal notebook set come to life.
Ready to start
Not your ordinary notebooks
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EXPLORE ALLThe folio
Five colours, vegetable-tanned, $40 each.
Laces
One inner lace holds your notebooks. The belly lace takes one or two — in different colours if you like.
Inner lace
Belly lace
Second belly lace
Embossing
Three initials, or a line of up to eighteen characters. Pressed by hand into the front panel.
Finish
What it says
How the debossing works
Every folio can be pressed by hand here in the studio, in an all-caps serif typeface — Times New Roman — as drawn above.
- A monogram is up to three characters. A quote is up to eighteen, spaces included, and adds $5.00.
- The press is one size, so a quote is not made smaller to fit — it is set over two lines, broken at the space nearest the middle so the two read evenly.
- The English alphabet, numbers and a range of special characters, listed below.
- Two lines still need room. A quote centred on a corner runs off the edge of the folio, so the corners and the spine take a monogram only — while a quote is chosen, the placements that can hold one are the ones offered.
- Because they are made to order, personalised items cannot be returned or refunded.
- Personalisation adds 3–5 days before dispatch.
Available characters
Inserts
Up to 4 notebooks, and you can take more than one of the same title.
None chosen — 0 of 4
Charms
Brass, hung from the belly lace. $12 each — add as many as you like, including more than one of the same.
Into the cart
Everything you have chosen, added together as one folio.