» Side stapled Rhodia notebooks – Great for projects
These are the notebooks that I am considering for use in an upcoming Rhodia swap project. While our top stapled pads (Bloc Rhodia) and our Webnotebooks are very well known, I think it’s time to show off what else we’ve got.
The Rhodia side staplebound notebooks are available in three sizes and in our signature colors of black and orange, They are filled with either 48 or 96 pages of fountain pen friendly 80g extra white paper.
A7 75 X 120 ( 3 x 4 ¾ ” ) – 24 sheets/48 pages Ruling: Graph
A5 148 X 210 ( 6 x 8 ¼ ” ) – 48 sheets/96 pages Ruling: Lined
A4 210 X 297 ( 8 ¼ x 11 ¾ ” ) – 48 sheets/96 pages Ruling: Lined
Living the creative life as I do, I like to keep my ideas separate and use books like this (with fewer pages) as “project books.”
Every try these? How do you use them?
PS: It’s been a busy week as I am moving from one art studio to another at The Banana Factory. I unfortunately forgot to assemble a monthly “Friday Link Share” post for you today – but I promise I will have one for you next week.
If you’d like to take a peek inside my current studio and catch a glimspe of my new one….
Comments
I love the form factor, hate the ruling in the bigger sizes. Wish we could get graph, blank or dot options. I often just go for the crappier Moleskine cahiers because I can get the formfactor without the ultrawide ruling.
I just finished filling one for a writing project. The black cover is preferable to the orange for me. Seems pretty comparable to the Clairefontaine side staple except for the lack of margin lines and it’s harder to label the black cover. Since I ignore margin lines anyway, that’s no biggie!
I used a variety of inks in nibs ranging from 3B in a Pelikan M1005 with Ku-jaku, which left me only able to use one side of the paper and it buckled as if I’d used water colors, to DeAtramentis Mint Turquoise in a 14kt B nibbed Visconti, which behaved beautifully and wrote both sides of the page with no bleed through, to Diamine Grape, also in a 14kt B nibbed Visconit, which also behaved beautifully.
The dry times are slow on this paper, but the colors is so beautiful and the paper color so easy on my eyes [not tired and draggy like the cream paper] that I’ll use it again if I run out of my stash of Clairefontaine.
Any thought to leaving a lighter colored block on the front cover where we could label without having to resort to a label machine for “Masterpiece Vol 1″? Not sure how many other people label their notebooks. On the lighter colored Clairefontaine, I use a Sharpie marker to label the covers.
Stephanie
Your artwork is simply amazing! So many things you have are fabulous and “It stops here” is mesmerizing. Keep up the good work in your new digs!
Best wishes,
Peter
Oh yes I forgot to mention (your artwork distracted me) but I too like to use side staple notebooks as my main writing tool. They are lightweight, cheap and unassuming. Anyway, I use clairefontaine notebooks now, because they come in A5 graph lined, however if rhodia ever did make one in this style, I would definitely give it a try.
Thank you Peter! I appreciate your kind words.
They certainly look classy :)
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