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In bronze, an albesia wood mask guards the most intimate of thoughts and feelings written in this handcrafted journal. Filled with 50 pages of rice straw paper pages, the journal is crafted by hand by Komang Sulaksana. He weaves pandan leaves for the covers and adorns the black fabric spine with cinnamon sticks. The Balinese artisan binds the notebook with agel cords.

Komang Sulaksana hand-weaves natural fibers from pandan leaves into a bright blue cover for this cheerful journal. A glass-covered opening on the front is bordered with agel grass, perfect for displaying a photograph. Bound with banana tree bark, the book's spine holds a cinnamon stick in an agel grass cord; inside, one hundred unlined rice straw paper pages await your inspiration. The vivid color and varied textures of this journal make it a welcome companion for traveling or for home.

Bali's Komang Sulaksana presents a colorful quartet of handcrafted journals that feature a wealth of natural materials. Each journal contains 50 blank pages of rice straw paper, and a cover made from banana bark fiber. The 4 petite journals are bound with agel grass cords and trimmed with a natural cinnamon stick.

Filled with 50 pages of rice straw paper pages, this journal is designed to inspire the environmentally minded. Komang Sulaksana crafts the journal by hand, weaving pandan leaves for the covers, and adorning the black fabric spine with cinnamon sticks and albesia wood blue flipflops. The Balinese artisan binds the notebook with agel cords.

This natural fiber journal, handcrafted by Balinese artisan Komang Sulaksana, features a pandan leaf cover, cinnamon and grass cord binding and 100 pages of rice straw paper perfect for jotting notes, memories, dreams, drawings or poetry. The artisan relishes in the challenge of melding different mediums, relying on both his artistic talent, and on natural fibers, for all of his work. "Creating new designs is so much fun for me," he says. "Arranging different kinds of materials together is not a hard thing to do but, of course, it requires patience and skill."