No. 0152 gsm
Tomoegawa Cream
Shizuoka, Japan · Glassine-smooth
Holds fountain ink without bleed. A favourite for daily journaling.
❯No. 07 · The Catalogue · Updated quarterly
The papers,
one by one.
Forty-seven sheets, each chosen by hand. We test for feathering, ghosting and marker compatibility before any paper joins the roster. Then we write down what we learned.
❯I. The Roster
Six sheets we are pouring through right now.
Each card carries the basics. Origin, weight, surface, and a one-line field note. The full forty-seven live in the shop.
No. 0285 gsm
Midori MD Ivory
Tokyo, Japan · Soft vellum
Warm ivory tone. Tested clean with brush pens up to 0.8 mm.
No. 0370 gsm
Hanji Heritage Bone
Jeonju, Korea · Mulberry-fibred
Hand-laid sheets with visible long fibres. Pulls dip-pen ink slowly.
No. 04120 gsm
Hahnemühle Grain
Dassel, Germany · Cold-pressed
Heavyweight tooth for gouache and pointed-pen flourishing.
No. 0590 gsm
Clairefontaine Triomphe
Étival, France · Velvet smooth
Long the benchmark for fountain pens. Ghosting kept to a whisper.
No. 0665 gsm
Echizen Washi Edition
Echizen, Fukui · Deckle-edge laid
Limited run from a thirteenth-century mill. Sold by the quire.
❯II. The Origins
Three regions. Three traditions.
We source from mills that still care about the small things. Fibre length, drying time, the depth of a deckle edge. We visit when we can. We email otherwise. We do not buy paper we have not tested.
Region · 01
Japan
Echizen · Tokyo · Shizuoka
Three mills, three traditions. We taste-test new lots twice a year, in person where possible.
Washi craft, vellum smoothness, fountain-pen heritage.
Region · 02
Korea
Jeonju · Wonju
Hanji workshops still soak mulberry bark in mountain water. The fibre length is unmatched.
Long-fibre strength, soft tooth, deep archival life.
Region · 03
Germany
Dassel · Düren
Mills running since the 1500s. Calibrated tooth for cold-pressed work and pointed-pen drills.
Engineering precision, weight, gouache-ready surface.
❯III. Field Glossary
The words we use, defined plainly.
No jargon for jargon's sake. Six terms you will meet on every product page in the shop.
- Feathering
- Ink wicks along the paper fibres. Crisp strokes turn fuzzy. Caused by loose sizing.
- Ghosting
- Ink shows on the back of the sheet. The page below is still usable.
- Bleed-through
- Ink soaks fully through. The page below is ruined. The deal-breaker.
- Sizing
- A surface coat that controls ink uptake. More sizing means a sharper line.
- Tooth
- The micro-grain of the surface. More tooth grips dry media. Less tooth flatters wet ink.
- GSM
- Grams per square metre. The honest weight measure. Higher means thicker, not always better.
We do not stock paper we would not draw on. The catalogue is short for a reason. Sixty per cent of our customers come back. That number is the only review that matters.
❯IV. Free with first order
Hold the paper before you commit.
Every first order ships with a six-sheet sample pack. Test your pens at home. Then come back for the quire. No trial, no error.