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Balloons over Budapest with Bomo

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Balloons over Budapest with Bomo

The A5 Bomo Memo set offers a trio of beautifully-crafted notebooks which just get everything right. All three popular rulings are present; one plain, one lined, one dot-grid. The front covers are classy retro, and the addition of textured end-papers adds a touch of luxury too. These books are nicely thick too, with plenty of pages of excellent cream paper; there's enough texture for graphite fans to be happy, but it behaves very well with fountain pens too.

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My Struggle with Staedtler

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My Struggle with Staedtler

Good old Staedtler - 'can't pronounce them, can't live without them.  Seriously, how do you say that name? I've been wondering for literally decades. It could be steedler, stightler, staydler - heaven knows. But the reason I've been puzzled for so long is that they actually made the device that I learned to write with. Back in those days, there were boxes of the red and black sticks that Staedtler now markets as the Tradition up there on the teacher's desk, next to a big hand-cranked sharpener that only the most trusted children (not me, obviously) were allowed to use....

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A new dawn

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A new dawn

Those of you on social media or who listen to the podcast 1857, will have heard that Nero, beloved CEO has been promoted to non-exec Chairman. Enough has been said and written about that already. First - I want to thank all of those who took the time to ‘like’, comment or message us. We were overwhelmed by the support that we received. Second - I would like to share one message. It came from a golfing friend, Simon. More accurately, from his two little boys, Toby and Oliver. The family had, earlier this year, lost their two West Highland...

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The story of Story Supply supplies, with orange staples

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The story of Story Supply supplies, with orange staples

As the autumn colours start to turn the leaves various ruddy shades, it's good to be reminded of the summer...

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The best paper... in the world

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The best paper... in the world

If you like using a fountain pen, you want a surface which is fairly smooth, but not like glass, so that it's pleasant to run the nib over but offers just enough traction to draw some ink onto the page. You want ink absorption not to be too enthusiastic, so that bleeding or feathering are minimal. You want it to be sturdy enough not start wrinkling as you write on it, and you want it to be the right colour to contrast nicely with your chosen ink. Hitting all those needs at the same time turns out to be quite a big ask. 

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