§ Folio — About
A small shop in Udaipur.
We bind leather diaries by hand in Rajasthan — through the fold, one at a time — using full-grain hides and fountain-pen-friendly paper. Visit us on Lal Ghat, or order online from anywhere in India and abroad.
I t began on Lal Ghat with one needle, a stack of cotton paper, and a hide from a Rajasthan tannery we still trust today — the same kind of full-grain leather we bind in the shop now.
We didn't set out to build a brand. We wanted one honest diary we could carry every day for years without replacing. The first we kept. A friend asked for the second. By the hundredth, we had a small workshop and a storefront in the old city of Udaipur.
Today we're still a small shop — a bench by the window, a few pairs of hands, the same slow way of working: sewn through the fold, waxed linen in the spine, no shortcuts. Names pressed into the cover by hand when you ask for them.
“We are not making the last leather journal anyone will ever own. We are making the first one worth keeping.”