Plain Lab · notebook
Hex Grid Notebook
A5 hexagon ruling at 4.94 millimetres, ninety-six pages, for pattern work a square grid cannot hold evenly.
Specification
- Trim
- 148 × 210 mm · 5.827 × 8.268 in
- Pages
- 120
- Leaves
- 60
- Sheets
- 30
- Signatures
- 6 × 20pp
- Spine
- 6.86 mm
- Paper
- white
- Ruling
- hex
- Ruling pitch
- 4.94 mm · 14.00 pt
- Rows per page
- 35
A square cell gives two directions to draw a straight line in, and two more at an angle that agrees with nothing else on the page. A hexagon gives six, all the same length, so a shape built from one side of a cell sits flush against a shape built from any other. That is the whole argument for ruling a page this way instead of the ordinary square.
Ninety-six pages carry the hexagon at 4.94 millimetres, thirty-five rows deep, behind one divider. A further fourteen lined pages sit at the back, because not every note belongs inside a cell.
The book does not know what gets drawn in the hexagons. A honeycomb of six-sided cells with nothing on it yet is as far as a printed page can go; what goes in the cells is the reader's.
What is inside
- Grid
- 96pp
- Pointy-top hexagons at 4.94 mm, every side the same length in six directions.
- Notes
- 14pp
- Plain lined pages for whatever does not belong inside a hexagon.
The film
Page by page
A vertical film from our own bench — this page contacts nobody's server to play it, and downloads nothing until you press play.
Real pages
Made at the Hibrkraft bindery, Bogor · about the maker
Books that sit alongside it
- Hex Grid InsertSame ruling, other trimhex at 4.94 mm: 35 lines at a5 against 30 at 5x7
Questions
What is the hexagon pitch?
4.94 millimetres, corner to corner across the cell.
How many rows to a page?
Thirty-five.
How big is it?
A5, 148 x 210 mm, 120 pages, 6.86 mm across the spine.
Why does the line between two hexagons not look doubled?
A shared edge is drawn once, in an opaque line, rather than twice by each neighbouring cell.
Is it dated?
No.
Has nature covenanted with me that I should never appear to disadvantage, never make a ridiculous figure?
