A small studio by the river.
Two of us, one workbench, a paper cutter older than either of us. We started with notebooks for ourselves and never stopped.
How it started
Maya bound books for a library and kept seeing notebooks that would not stay open. Jonah machined parts for other people's pens and kept wishing he had made the whole pen. In 2019 they rebuilt a proof press that had sat in a barn for thirty years, and Northpage started on the day it printed a straight line.
We sell what we would buy, at the price we would pay, and we say so plainly on every page.
Four rules on every bench.
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Made, not sourced
If we sell it, we made it or finished it here. The pen body comes from a shop in Ogden to our drawing; the rest is ours.
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Slow on purpose
Forty minutes a notebook. Small runs. A drop every quarter, not a launch every week.
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The price is the price
No coupons hidden in pop-ups. Members get ten percent because they pay every month, and everyone else pays what is written.
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Easy to leave
Returns for any reason. Subscriptions you pause and cancel from your account without asking.
Folded, sewn, pressed, packed.
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Folded
Sheets are folded into signatures of twenty pages, by hand, on the bench by the window.
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Sewn
Eight signatures sewn through the fold with linen thread. Glue holds a spine stiff; thread lets it open.
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Pressed
Overnight in the press so the block settles flat, then trimmed square.
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Packed
Wrapped in kraft with a card in our hand, and out the door within two days.
Small, and counted.
- 2019The year we rebuilt the press
- 4,100Notebooks sewn since
- 2 daysFrom order to the post
- 30 daysTo return anything, no questions
Who answers the email and sews the books.
Maya Lind
Binding and paper. Sews every notebook, writes the journal.
Jonah Reyes
Pens and the press. Finishes every pen, prints every North.
The bench
Where both of them are, Thursdays and Saturdays, 10 to 4.
Visit
14 North Street, Draper. Thursdays and Saturdays, 10 to 4. Bring a notebook you love and we will tell you why it works. Parking on the street; the door is the green one.
What people write back.
- ★★★★★
Three months of daily notes and the binding has not creaked once.
Ines R., Salt Lake City - ★★★★★
The pen arrived in a small box with a handwritten card. It writes like it costs twice as much.
Tom A., Boise - ★★★★
I set the print's price at $18 and got a thank-you note from the library. Good trade.
Priya S., Ogden
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Start with a notebook.
Eighteen dollars, two days to your door, thirty days to change your mind.
