Bamboo Notebook
Made in the UK, this spiral bound notebook is FSC certified.
The notebook has blank pages but is supplied with a ruled card insert that can be seen when placed under a page.
170 x 170mm (w x h)
Bamboo Notebook
Date: 1951
Origin: Bradford, UK
Bamboo (ref ESS1787) was drawn up at E&S Smith by head designer Mr Allan Stringer in 1984. The fabric woven was a wadded double-face fabric used for a bed throw. The end customer was the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group.
A very slow-weaving fabric at 75 weft picks per inch, this design was one of the last where all the point paper work and punch cards were produced ‘in house’ at the Mill. The drawing on the point paper is a condensed scale. Each of the 224 rows relates to 5 weft picks and the columns relate to 2 warp ends each to utilise the 1200 needles/hooks in the Jacquard machine.
The set of perforated cards that produced the 15-inch-long x 12-inch-wide fabric design repeat had 1120 ‘cards’ in it. By the time all these cards had been cut and were sewn together, the set of cards weighed approx. 25 kg! From start to finish, Mr Stringer would have toiled for around 60 hours to complete his work. Thankfully the fabric was a regular order!
