Plain Lab · notebook
Knitting and Crochet Chart Notebook
Two gauge pages that ask rather than assume, then one hundred and six pages of a 5.0 mm grid proportioned for a knitted stitch.
Price
from Rp 59.000
Softcover, French link sewing. Printed and sewn to order.
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Specification
- Type
- Notebook
- 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
- graph
- Ruling pitch
- 5.00 mm · 14.17 pt
- Rows per page
- 34
- Dating
- Undated
Build it
Rp 59,000
Two pages at the front ask for the numbers a pattern usually assumes: yarn, needle or hook, stitches per ten centimetres, rows per ten centimetres, and a note. Nothing is printed there for you to copy. Gauge changes with the yarn, the needle, and the hand holding it, so a number printed in a book would be somebody else's swatch, not yours.
After that, one hundred and six pages are ruled in a grid pitched at five millimetres, thirty-four rows to the page, proportioned for a stitch that sits wider than it stands. A knitted or crocheted stitch is not the square a sheet of maths paper assumes, so charting one on an ordinary grid quietly distorts the picture.
A swatch knit at a different tension will not match a chart built for someone else's hands, which is the entire reason this book asks the question instead of answering it.
What is inside
- Gauge
- 2pp
- Yarn, needle or hook, stitches per 10 cm, rows per 10 cm, note: recorded, not assumed.
- Charting grid
- 106pp
- 5.0 mm, thirty-four rows to the page, proportioned for a knitted or crocheted stitch.
- Reference
- 12pp
- Owner page, conversion tables computed from definitions, and emergency numbers checked against two independent sources.
In every book
The same six pages open every book: your details, who to call, the signs to point at when you have no shared language, and the map. They sit at the front because the moment you need them is not the moment to be flicking through.
- How to use it
- One page describing this book, not a different one.
- This book belongs to
- One page for your name and number, so a book that goes missing can come back.
- My details
- Blood group, allergies, who to call. Written once, carried everywhere.
- Emergency numbers
- Forty countries, taken from Wikidata property P2852 (CC0), agreed across two sources, every row carrying its QID. Numbers change and a book does not — verify locally on arrival.
- Point at this
- A pictogram grid captioned in English above and Indonesian below, for when there is no shared language.
- World map
- Natural Earth 110m, public domain, equirectangular, with UTC hour meridians computed from the projection rather than from a timezone database. For orientation and for pointing at, not a navigation chart.
- Conversion tables
- Computed from definitions — 25.4 mm to the inch — and not copied from anywhere, so every row can be checked by anyone holding the book.
- Pen test leaf
- The last page, printed for it on purpose. Every notebook is used this way; printing it deliberately is cheaper than losing the last leaf to it by accident.
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.
What is inside this book?
The PDF of this book.
We do not sell the design or the PDF. Download it free, with no conditions at all, not even tracking. What we sell is the book, a real object that is genuinely useful and can help your life.
Download PDF PDF · 120 pages · 0.4 MB
Made at the Hibrkraft bindery, Bogor · about the maker
Compared with
Try the ruling on paper first
The same ruling exists as a free, ready-to-print sheet. Print one, write on it, and decide whether the pitch suits your hand before you order the book.
Graph Paper, 5 mm SquaresFree PDF · 5 paper sizes
Books that sit alongside it
- Squared Insert 5 mmSame ruling, other trimgraph at 5.0 mm: 30 lines at 5x7 against 34 at a5
- Squared Notebook 6 mmA coarser pitch6.0 mm to 5.0 mm
Questions
Does the book print a standard gauge?
No. Gauge varies by yarn, needle and hand, so the book asks you to record your own rather than print one that would not match it.
What does the gauge page ask for?
Yarn, needle or hook, stitches per 10 cm, rows per 10 cm, and a note.
Why is the grid not square?
A knitted or crocheted stitch is wider than it stands, so the chart is proportioned to match rather than using an ordinary square grid.
How big is the book?
A5, one hundred and twenty pages, six sewn signatures of twenty.
Is it dated?
No, so it starts whenever the project starts.
At the same time and place, the real and the nominal price of all commodities are exactly in proportion to one another.
Price
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