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| Image from The Stamford Notebook Co. reproduced with permission |
Isn't this fabulous! It's by The Stamford Notebook Company and is their Traveller's Journal. I saw the picture on Twitter and fell in love!
It's made of thick leather and the journals are hand-dyed by the company using vegetable dyes. The dimensions of the journal are 14cm x 23cm and the internal notebooks are 12.5cm x 21cm.
[For comparison, a Midori Traveler's Notebook (Midori - please could you spell Traveller properly??) is 12cm x 22cm with the Midori notebook refills 11cm x 21cm.]
Look at the range of colours they come in! They are so beautiful and that red one has my name on it!
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| Image from The Stamford Notebook Co. reproduced with permission |
They come supplied with two internal notebooks and you can choose whether these are lined, plain, squared or sketch paper. Apparently, the cover board is made from recycled coffee cups! Very environmentally friendly. According to the website (I haven't got one to test personally) the smooth paper is fountain-pen friendly and an off-white colour. The sketch paper is a white paper designed for drawing. The booklets have 60 pages and are 12.5cm x 21cm and are held in with leather cords. From the picture showing all the colours, it looks like the leather cords match the cover - a lovely touch. Refills are available from the company, but I note that a large Moleskine cahier (if you can stand their paper) is 13cm x 21cm and so would probably fit and Midori notebooks are a shade narrower but would fit too.
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| Image from The Stamford Notebook Co. reproduced with permission |
As you can see from the picture, the journals are fastened closed with a leather thong that winds around a leather button with the company logo on. I really love that - it seems classier than the elastic closures seen on other well known brands!
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| Image from The Stamford Notebook Co. reproduced with permission |
The rear of the journal has 'Stamford' blind embossed on it.
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| Image from The Stamford Notebook Co. reproduced with permission |
You can also get up to 4 initials embossed into the leather, in gold, silver, bronze or 'blind' (i.e. no colour - as shown in the picture above). The journal is supplied in a calico bag which has a drawstring fastening of a leather thong (you can see it behind the journal in the top picture).
I absolutely love the look of these and I'm also very impressed that the company and their products are British made. I may well be ordering one of these in red in the very near future, especially as I am still in a stationery-buying mode!
[Update: I did order one! Review to follow when it arrives]
They do look really good!
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