Passepied Cream Hardcover Notebook

In search of a replacement for my beloved Standard Seven Seas Tomoe River 400+ page journal, I came across this (new to me) shop. I’m greatly impressed with the service, quality and personal touch. I bought two journals to compare. The Cosmo Air Light and this Passepied. Testing all the inks I own in the back of each journal - I began my journaling with the CAL as it was recommended to me by a leading ink blogger at the Dallas Pen show, (WellAppointedDesk). I’m having a personal preference issue with the feedback/feeling of this paper and even my hand moving across the paper. I would almost describe it as a stone / chalk feeling. I’m wishing I had started in the Passepied now as I think it may be more to my texture preferences. However I LOVE the way the inks look on the CAL better. The shading just pops and the white background is a fresh change from the cream I’ve been writing on for the past several years. Im so happy I bought them both to have the comparison of the recommendation, and then what you all say is your smoothest paper. As a paper geek it’s been super great to try both of them. Thanks for the personal note in the order and I wish your company all the best!

I’m new to fountain pens. The paper is smooth but the ink I’m using takes awhile to dry on it. Customer service is awesome, I live in rural Kansas and packages usually takes a week to arrive but not only did it arrive a lot sooner than other stores. It was also packaged in a box with another box around the original box to protect it. My order also came with a hand written note which to me means a-lot about customer service in my opinion.

I ordered one of these a couple of months ago along with a couple of Mitsubishi Bank Paper notebooks. I like the Mitsubishi notebooks more for carrying around because of the rounded corners and flexible covers, but I use the Passepied notebook in my office and keep it at my desk, and I love it. The paper is excellent with my fountain pens, and hard-covered notebooks look better on my bookshelves than the Mitsubishi with its mesh spine. And while I also consider the Mitsubishi notebooks excellent and worth every penny, I do save a few hundred pennies with the Passepied.

I use the different notebooks to meet different needs. The Passepied is an excellent notebook on its own terms. Ink dries a little more slowly on this paper than on the Mitsubishi, but not slowly enough that I care. The Mitsubishi paper is whiter, the Passepied is more ivory. I prefer the Mitsubishi for drawing and for recipes, since I lay it on my kitchen counter and the cover seems more resistant to water and dabs of whatever sauce might drip. Not that I've tried dripping water or salsa verde on my Passapied. The Passapied is more business. Mine is gradually being filled with research notes. I intend to fill more of them.

The Paper Mind packages goods carefully for shipping, far better than other companies I've bought from. I appreciate that enormously. When you pay this much for a notebook (or any book; Amazon has really done me wrong on that score), you don't want it to arrive in a bubble-wrap envelope. My notebooks were well-protected. I'll buy from The Paper Mind again.

Everything, from the packaging to the final product is absolutely fantastic. Excellent paper and sublime construction of the notebook, this was a fantastic purchase. The only problem I have now is deciding which pen to use with it!

It reminds me of the old library books, with their fabric covers and traditional construction. The paper is very smooth and still keeps a very nice level of feedback, my writing is kept under control. Ink nuances show very nice, my favorite is Shikiori Souten, under the right light angle looks a little like OS Nitrogen, really nice. It opens flat, easy. The 7 mm ruling is better for wet nibs that make me write larger. Best notebook I have had. Keep it up Blake.

In search of a replacement for my beloved Standard Seven Seas Tomoe River 400+ page journal, I came across this (new to me) shop. I’m greatly impressed with the service, quality and personal touch. I bought two journals to compare. The Cosmo Air Light and this Passepied. Testing all the inks I own in the back of each journal - I began my journaling with the CAL as it was recommended to me by a leading ink blogger at the Dallas Pen show, (WellAppointedDesk). I’m having a personal preference issue with the feedback/feeling of this paper and even my hand moving across the paper. I would almost describe it as a stone / chalk feeling. I’m wishing I had started in the Passepied now as I think it may be more to my texture preferences. However I LOVE the way the inks look on the CAL better. The shading just pops and the white background is a fresh change from the cream I’ve been writing on for the past several years. Im so happy I bought them both to have the comparison of the recommendation, and then what you all say is your smoothest paper. As a paper geek it’s been super great to try both of them. Thanks for the personal note in the order and I wish your company all the best!

I’m new to fountain pens. The paper is smooth but the ink I’m using takes awhile to dry on it. Customer service is awesome, I live in rural Kansas and packages usually takes a week to arrive but not only did it arrive a lot sooner than other stores. It was also packaged in a box with another box around the original box to protect it. My order also came with a hand written note which to me means a-lot about customer service in my opinion.

I ordered one of these a couple of months ago along with a couple of Mitsubishi Bank Paper notebooks. I like the Mitsubishi notebooks more for carrying around because of the rounded corners and flexible covers, but I use the Passepied notebook in my office and keep it at my desk, and I love it. The paper is excellent with my fountain pens, and hard-covered notebooks look better on my bookshelves than the Mitsubishi with its mesh spine. And while I also consider the Mitsubishi notebooks excellent and worth every penny, I do save a few hundred pennies with the Passepied.

I use the different notebooks to meet different needs. The Passepied is an excellent notebook on its own terms. Ink dries a little more slowly on this paper than on the Mitsubishi, but not slowly enough that I care. The Mitsubishi paper is whiter, the Passepied is more ivory. I prefer the Mitsubishi for drawing and for recipes, since I lay it on my kitchen counter and the cover seems more resistant to water and dabs of whatever sauce might drip. Not that I've tried dripping water or salsa verde on my Passapied. The Passapied is more business. Mine is gradually being filled with research notes. I intend to fill more of them.

The Paper Mind packages goods carefully for shipping, far better than other companies I've bought from. I appreciate that enormously. When you pay this much for a notebook (or any book; Amazon has really done me wrong on that score), you don't want it to arrive in a bubble-wrap envelope. My notebooks were well-protected. I'll buy from The Paper Mind again.

Everything, from the packaging to the final product is absolutely fantastic. Excellent paper and sublime construction of the notebook, this was a fantastic purchase. The only problem I have now is deciding which pen to use with it!

It reminds me of the old library books, with their fabric covers and traditional construction. The paper is very smooth and still keeps a very nice level of feedback, my writing is kept under control. Ink nuances show very nice, my favorite is Shikiori Souten, under the right light angle looks a little like OS Nitrogen, really nice. It opens flat, easy. The 7 mm ruling is better for wet nibs that make me write larger. Best notebook I have had. Keep it up Blake.