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Pour une petite lecture matinale: une entrevue de Scribe avec Silk Laundry. "In your company mission it says that Scribe promotes thought over decoration – how would you describe this as an every-day action?"
I’m not against decoration. But it’s overrated and it stays at home. Thinking travels. We can count on it anytime, anywhere, rain or shine. And at last let’s say it: thinking is beautiful.
Crédit photos (et conseils): Sylvie Laliberté

In Conversation: Bianca Lilaberte Bianca Laliberté is the creative behind Scribe Notebooks; notebooks that are bound, printed, assembled and glued on recycled paper and cardboard made in Quebec. Hailing from Montreal, Canada, Bianca collaborated with Silk Laundry to develop our Monarch Notebook, in aid of our awareness campaign dev...

The very fashionable “Cahier papillon” came out after months of work and Covid-related wanderings. We are here speaking of a 8 x 5 inches size notebook, signed by both Scribe and Silk Laundry, produced in the St-Lawrence Valley (Canada), elaborated as an ode to the Monarch butterfly and therefore evoking its protagonist in multiple material ways: the best quality silky feeling paper (Natural cougar 70 lbs, 128 pages), Kraft Cardboard (Neenah), a touch of “Peacock” Japanese 33 % made of mulberry paper (Mulberry being a tree that monarchs love to eat and from which silkworms nourish themselves), an orange and white coloured sewn visible spine (to evoke the Monarch’s color) and a gold hot stamp of Silk Laundry’s logo on both cover and back (Monarchs being regal).

You can get the notebook for 35 $ on the Silk Laundry website at https://silklaundry.ca/products/monarch-notebook or go get it in person at their Canadian (2465 Notre-Dame West) or Australian store (2765 Pacific Fair Shopping Center, Broadbeach).

On each page, a new butterfly drawn by was added, representing both the revitalisation of the Monarch’s species made possible during the last couple of years, thanks to the efforts of multiple institutions, citizens and organisation to fight against its extinction (such as , ). Knowing these efforts still requires to keep growing for Monarchs as they should for other disappearing insects and living being, this notebook is a humble way to show our support in the cause and to contribute to the collaborative effort to renew the species’ environment. This can be achieved through the planting of milkweed, sharing of knowledge and act of care. You may also find out how you can participate in some of these institution’s projects, who offer plenty of participative data collecting activities and informative tools on the topic. https://silklaundry.ca/products/monarch-notebook

Thanks to who had the idea. Thanks to her sense of style. Thanks to .bunyan for her constant presence.