Seawhite ECO Starter Sketchbook

The Sustainable Pocket Field Notebook for Creative Art and Design Exploration

The Seawhite ECO Starter Sketchbook was originally custom developed for the world renowned Eden Project, which explains its heavy focus on forward thinking ecological design. Engineered as a lightweight, no frills field notebook for artists, students, and hobbyists, it serves as the ultimate portable pad for recording quick ideas without the bulk of a heavy hardback book. Proudly made in the United Kingdom, this 100% vegan friendly sketchbook features a flexible card cover with rounded corners and staple binding, housing high quality cartridge paper that opens comfortably wide for uninhibited sketching.

Material and Sustainability Breakdown

• The Eco-Friendly Cover: Crafted from a tactile, unbleached kraft card that is fully PEFC certified. Because the natural card surface is left completely plain, many artists use the cover itself as a blank canvas to decorate, paint, or custom label their specific design projects.
• Cradle-to-Cradle Certified Pages: The internal paper sheets meet strict international circular economy standards for environmental safety and ecological impact. The paper is completely chlorine free, acid free to prevent your work from yellowing over time, and entirely vegan friendly.

Media Compatibility and Wet Strength Performance

The defining feature of Seawhite cartridge paper is that it is both internally and externally sized for extra wet strength. This specialised sizing prevents the paper from acting like a sponge, allowing it to handle a versatile mix of dry and wet mediums with ease:

• Excellent for Dry Media: Perfectly optimised for graphite pencils, charcoal, fine liners, coloured pencils, and ink pens. The 150gsm paper features a slight toothy texture that grabs dry pigments beautifully while remaining smooth enough for detailed, intricate line work.
• Good for Wet Media and Markers: Highly resilient when exposed to light watercolour washes, gouache, and markers. Thanks to the integrated wet strength sizing, the paper resists bleeding and severe buckling far better than standard 150gsm utility paper.

Thoughtful Design Elements

• Staple Bound Spine: Utilises a clean, saddle stitch staple binding that allows the booklet to pack completely flat inside a pocket or tool bag, while giving you the freedom to open the pages wide for edge to edge drawing.
• Rounded Corners: A subtle yet vital design touch that effectively prevents the corners of your pages from dog earing, bending, or fraying when you repeatedly slide the sketchbook in and out of a backpack.

Technical Specifications

• Brand: Seawhite of Brighton
• Paper Weight: 150gsm All-Media Cartridge Paper
• Page Count: 32 pages / 16 leaves
• Size Options: Available in Portrait A5 and A6 dimensions
• Binding: Saddle-stitched staple binding with rounded corners
• Certifications: Cradle-to-Cradle Certified paper, PEFC Certified cover
• Environmental Profile: 100& Vegan, acid free, and chlorine free
• Origin: Made in the United Kingdom