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A PRACTICAL SHORTLIST

Choose Canadian paper for planning, notes and giving

A scheduled week, open notes and a card for someone else need different paper formats. Use the interior or artwork as the starting point, then check dimensions, cover, printing scope and whether the order is a single item or a custom project.

Dated structure or open notes

Hemlock & Oak separates dated weekly layouts from dotted, graph and lined notebooks. Baltic Club also has a notebook and journal collection. Compare the exact interior, paper and cover for the book you choose rather than assuming one specification applies to the brand.

Buying guide: Hemlock & Oak

A card with an artist’s work

Paperole’s greeting cards and Norton’s Cove relief-print paper goods give different routes into illustrated paper. Follow the official offering to see the actual artwork; Upvote concept illustrations do not reproduce an artist’s print or card design.

Upvote concept illustration of blank cards, envelopes, notebook and pencils; not the actual products or workshop
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Publishing, greeting cards and custom projectsMontreal, Quebec

Paperole

A publisher-shop with a separate custom-project route.

Paperole describes Montreal publishing, gallery and retail activity operating since 2013. Its pages connect paper goods and lifestyle objects with artist collaborations and identify a Duluth Avenue shop.

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Original Upvote concept of a blank linocut workbench, brayer, paper and a simple coiled rope; not the maker’s actual products or studio.
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Relief printmaking and sailor’s knotsBrookfield, Newfoundland and Labrador

Norton’s Cove Studio

A working print studio in a former outport general store.

Janet Davis makes relief prints at Norton’s Cove Studio in Brookfield. The official shop also lists sailor’s knots made in the studio, giving readers a route to paper goods and functional craft with an identifiable local workshop.

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A custom project needs its own terms

Hemlock & Oak’s custom books have a 100-book minimum and use available signature interiors. Paperole has a separate custom-project route. Explain quantity, format and timing, then obtain the maker’s terms rather than treating an inquiry as an accepted commission.

Buying guide: Hemlock & Oak

Upvote concept illustration of blank cards, envelopes, notebook and pencils; not the actual products or workshop
Upvote concept illustration · About the art
Publishing, greeting cards and custom projectsMontreal, Quebec

Paperole

A publisher-shop with a separate custom-project route.

Paperole describes Montreal publishing, gallery and retail activity operating since 2013. Its pages connect paper goods and lifestyle objects with artist collaborations and identify a Duluth Avenue shop.

— this week

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