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Textile cloth, boards thin enough to be almost flexible, leather decoration on top right corner. 256 pages of 100 gsm paper with a dot grid and page numbers. This is my current best understanding of ideal style and proportions for an everyday notebook.
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I recently received a sept couleur B6 notebook that I ordered from papeterie nota bene in Montreal. Price: $5.60 CAD plus associated taxes and shipping. I was somewhat amused to purchase a notebook with a French product name that was made in Japan, from a shop in Montreal. The global marketplace wins my heart again.
The notebook is 80 sheets of B6-sized paper, 7mm x 24 lines. It has a stiff, but not inflexible plastic cover with subtle raised diagonal lines marked into it. Behind the front cover is a blank coversheet. This keeps the writing on the first lined page of the notebook from being visible through the transparent cover. The coversheet is an ideal place for writing your contact information, or sticking a book plate or ID sticker of some sort. A small decal near the bottom of the front cover gives the name of the notebook, as well as symbols indicating that the notebook can be used while traveling or at home. Good to know!
The back cover is essentially identical to the front, with a small product decal including the UPC code. There is no back cover sheet.
There are seven colors of cover available, hence, sept couleur. The notebook is bound with a double coil of polished metal.
The paper (75g/m) is white, but not overly bright. The lines are unobtrusive and don't interfere with fountain pen ink. The pages are smooth to the touch, similar to the feel of Apica paper, without feeling "coated". Each page has a fine perforation located a few mm past the coil binding. The pages are easy to separate from the notebook.
I tested a page using a Lamy Vista F nib, a Lamy Al-Star M nib, a Lamy Accent M nib, and a Waterman Phileas M nib. The inks were Lamy Violet, PR Midnight Blues, Lamy Black, and Waterman Florida Blue respectively.
The overall writing experience was smooth and pleasant. The ink drying time seemed to be slightly faster than with Rhodia or Clairefontaine paper. This trait is consistent with Apica paper, another very good Japanese product. All of the pens glided across the page with a decent degree of smoothness, with no traces of feathering or bleed from any of the inks, including the particularly juicy Waterman.
If you like coil-bound notebooks, you will like the sept couleur line. I prefer the smaller B6 size, but nota bene offers a larger B5 version as well.
Made new listings today and tried to get all colors framed and photographed...I'm afraid I didn't get all colors, but most of them are here =)
This Coptic bound book features beautiful handmade Indian cotton paper, and chiyogami Japanese paper. The diagonal stitching I created by drawing out the pattern I wanted finished on the spine with a pencil, then punching all the sewing stations from the back (the "mountain peak").
A little bonus is the lined pages - I figured out that I could just print them on my computer!
The journal is filled with 160 pages of 60lb acid free sketch paper.
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Traveler's Notebooks and inserts by Morgan Le Fae's Trinkets (www.etsy.com/shop/MorganLeFaesTrinkets)
For the past few years, due to the phenomenal success of Moleskine, many notebook manufacturers copied the form factors and "created" notebooks that are either lower in quality or expensive without a reason/design. In fact, in the last PaperWorld visit I found literally 15-20 Moleskine "rip-offs". CIAK however stands out from any of these followers both because of the unique features and quality with a reasonable price.
Simply said, CIAK is handmade entirely in Italy with leather-like cover and a patent protected elastic band application on the cover. These already made a huge difference to the rest of the crowd.
In this post you can only see 2 colors and 2 models of notebooks but the actual range of their product is far bigger, including photo albums, card holders, planners, organizers etc. I have to mention the subtle imperfect coloring of the leather-like cover is done by design rather than product flaw, which gives the products a more natural looking touch.
The photos you see here shows the new Pocket Slim notebooks, which has several unique features comparing to the other releases. A thin ballpoint pen is included and protected by the elastic band. There is also a pocket on the inside of the back cover which opens boldly outward (opposite to the typical Moleskine back pocket) thanks to the protection of the elastic band, which reduces strain to the spine of the notebook as well as increasing the expandability. Finally on the last page you will find a foldable world map.
The crude fact about CIAK comparing to Moleskine is that it is not as famous as the most popular notebook, yet it is entirely handmade in Italy as supposed to China. And in terms of raw material comparing to Moleskine, you get durable leather-like cover instead of hard oilcloth and the elastic band is far stronger than Moleskine (I found that the Moleskine soft cover diary is using a lower quality elastic band, which I'll report later). However, CIAK is not perfect, there is one very weak point comparing to Moleskine: It can't lie flat when opened. I'm sure it can be improved. This Pocket Slim version however reduced the weakness simply because of its .... slimness.
Finally, just 2 more pictures of CIAK's other less popular product lines: A Card Holder and a Golf Notes. I am sure CIAK will gain more and more popularity, again because of the price point and product quality.
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Notebook made using all natural and recycled material. The pages inside are 100% recycled paper. The cover is a sheet of handmade paper that I made using my green paper scraps. Bound onto a leafy twig from the back yard.
Bound using the same method as my "chopstick notebooks" - tutorial here:
myhandboundbooks.blogspot.com/2007/07/bookbinding-101-cho...
Visit my bookbinding blog for more stuff about making "recycled" books
Reciclando una libreta para recetas. Medios mixtos.
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Recycling a notebook for recipes. Mixed media.
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