Werner’s Notebook

This handy notebook is a great little gift for artists and designers – or anyone who loves beautiful stationery.

The cream front-cover features a chart from Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours by Patrick Syme, which helped naturalists portray characteristics of plants, animals and minerals before the era of photography. Charles Darwin famously referenced the book during his Voyage of the Beagle onboard a British navy vessel surveying the South American coastline between 1831 and 1836. The plain pages of the notebook are separated with a coloured divider, one of each colour from the chart.

Hues included are ‘Peach Blossom Red’ which you’d find in ‘Red Cobalt Ore’ and ‘Buff Orange’, which is like a ‘Streak from the Eye of the King Fisher’.