A square wood-mounted rubber stamp of a smiling sloth leaning over a desk with a pencil in one claw and an open notebook in front of it, one long arm still hooked up as if over a branch. The fur is built from dense scratchy pen strokes while the notebook pages print blank, so you get a finely detailed animal and two empty panels you can write in.
The blank pages make it more than decoration: stamp it at the top of a journal entry and fill the little notebook with a date or a word, use it on letters and reading-log pages, or put it on a card for someone who takes their time. It prints best on smooth paper, where the fine lines stay separate.
Designed by Kodomo no Kao, a Japanese stamp maker with a long history of illustrated wood-mounted rubber stamps for journaling and correspondence. Their designs are a mainstay of Japanese stationery shops and are collected worldwide for their hand-drawn character work.
