Dear Everyone ~
I’m delighted to announce the arrival of notebooks made in far-away places: Japan, Korea, and Germany. The pages for writing or drawing or colouring or doodling are all vellumy & versatile & wunderbar. It is their covers I’d like to cover in this post!
These petite red-margin notebooks (3½ x 4¾) from Japan have covers that actually stopped me in my tracks. MARGIN and its lozenge border are actually stamped in matte pigment foil: deep royal blue, front-door red, and golden-yellow. Their spine-tapes match, natch. The tiny text is truly noteworthy: “This memorandum is made of L writing paper white. It is easy to write smoothly.” We assume L stands for Life. We also note that the L!FE logo features a well-fed exclamation point for the uppercase I.
In contrast, three new colours of Hanaduri notebooks from Korea have no text at all on their beauteous covers. They do sport a blind embossed Hanaduri on the back cover. The new covers look lovely with the original three (as shown at top).
A new size (A4: 8¼ x 11¾) of kraft notebook from Germany is now in stock; its popular half-brother (A5: 5¾ x 8¼) is still available. The cover on the A4 is the same über-thick deliciously rich caramel kraft as on the A5. (We note that since our original post, The Art of Kraft Notebooks, at the end of February, we have re-ordered the A5’s five times. Furthermore, we don’t usually mention price in our blog posts, but these notebooks are a Eurodiculous bargain!)
And after many, many moons, the Japanese watercolour postcard books are back in stock. The cover proclaims: “Pad of 24 Japanese cold-press postcards (90 lb) with classic red postal rectangles on the message side. Lovely for a little watercolor.” Lovely indeed!
We’re not brushing you off: The Aquash brush pens we raved about last week … are already A-for-all-gone. We aspire to get a fresh supply.
Japanese Watercolour Postcard Pad
With a penchant for notebooks, Bari