Explore the origins of our papers: the mills, materials and journeys behind them. Pick a paper, scroll, and follow it from the forest to a finished book in our Exeter bindery.
Your … begins as …, fibre grown as a crop on a decades-long rotation, replanted as it's harvested.
These aren't wild woods felled for paper. It's why book paper, done properly, is one of the most renewable materials there is.
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This is the mill behind …, the sheet we'd reach for when a customer wants ….
Finished reels and sheets leave via … and cross to the UK by sea, the lowest-carbon freight there is per tonne, into a paper merchant's network. Our South West deliveries come out of …, then down to Devon by road.
The paper arrives at Unit 1, Seychelles Farm, Upton Pyne, the same floor where your pages are printed, sewn, bound and packed. One site, one team, no outsourcing. The paper's journey ends where your book begins.
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And you can plant some of it back, every order can plant a tree for every 100 copies.
Mill and route details are drawn from manufacturer and merchant documentation; batch-level specifics are confirmed with our paper merchants.
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