Courtesy of Cotton
Paper company Crane & Co. has launched a new swatchbook, Crane Paper, 100% Cotton: The Definitive Collection. This is the world’s greenest paper. No trees or wood fiber go into it because is entirely made of cotton. The swatchbook itself is made from cotton paper as well, and was designed by a C&G Partners team led by Partner Emanuela Frigerio.
(Learn more about the environmental aspects of cotton paper here. Download the entire swatchbook as a PDF here. See the end of this post for another surprising fact about Crane paper and US money.)
Not only is the paper 100% cotton, but no cotton is even grown to make it. It all comes from fibers left over during industrial cotton processing. And because there’s no lignin in cotton, no dioxin is created as a by-product.
A closeup of the paper samples inside the swatchbook:
A few spreads from the book:
One more surprising fact: Crane doesn’t only provide all-cotton paper to printing businesses and consumers of stationery: since 1879, the U.S. Treasury Department has printed all U.S. currency on Crane 100% cotton paper. Have you ever had a dollar bill go through the washing machine? It comes out intact because it isn’t paper. One last irresistible fact: you can even iron it. Via Swissmiss.
Interesting. I love paper but I’m the first to admit I don’t know a thing about it or its origins. I feel a lot better knowing this stock isn’t killing trees.