Every letter is carved before it's ever printed.
Remtem began on a rooftop off Anarkali Bazaar, where our founder started carving Urdu letterforms into printing blocks between architecture classes. What was once a stack of hand-pressed Haroof notebooks for friends is now a small studio of block-printers, stitchers and letters working the same way — by hand, in small batches.
We still cut every block ourselves, mix ink in-house, and press each sheet of kraft paper one at a time. It's slower than a factory run, and that's exactly the point: no two covers come out quite alike.
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