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Corso Cavour 32 | Bolsena (VT)

Tel: +39 375 783 2792

Email: info@passionforpaper.it

Opening Hours

Monday - Lunedì

Closed┃Chiuso

Tuesday - Martedì

10:00-13:00

Wednesday- Mercolodì

10:00-13:00

Thursday - Giovedì

10:00-13:00

Friday - Venerdì

10:00-13:00

Saturday - Sabato

Closed┃Chiuso

Sunday - Domenica

Closed┃Chiuso

Closed from 7-27 October

Chiuso per ferie 7-27 Ottobre

Front of the shop in Bolsena
Handmade with love

All our products are 'handmade by Bertie and reflect my personal style and taste of beauty and refinement.

Quality and passion

Great love for handwork, bookbinding, ceramics and quality materials is woven into all our products.

Workshops

Step into my creative world and join me at one of our workshops. You will learn a new skill and fill your time creatively.

Bertie Franke

About me

My name is Bertie Franke and I'm an artist and ceramist born in the Netherlands. I studied Interior Architecture at the Willem de Kooning academie in Rotterdam. As a child I already had a great love for paper. As a youngster, I learned the Japanese art of paper folding from the sisters in the convent where my mother worked. And during my high school years I could spend days creating booklets and notebooks. Since I moved to Italy in 2015, that passion has slowly developed into the production of handmade notebooks and diaries in my own style. I initially started making dotted journals, but soon expanded to a series of notebooks, agendas and watercolor booklets. I like soft colors and binding techniques with character, where you can see on the outside of the book how it is bound. For my books I use eco-leather and beautiful paper with quirky images from an Italian manufacturer.

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