Oh.My.Goodness.
Tomoe River Paper isn't for ink/paper/pen newbies. It can be difficult to deal with - it's super-thin, wrinkles easily, needs to be stored carefully, and wrinkles easily (worth mentioning twice). It's expensive, ghosts like a sonofagun, and wrinkles easily (that's three).
But.
Oh.My.Goodness.
The above swabs were done as one of my earliest experience with Tomoe River Paper. I did these (as I do all of my swabs) with a cotton swab saturated with the ink and the "scrubbed" onto the paper. Even though the paper is super-duper thin (and wrinkles easily) <that's four>, there was zero bleed-through. None.
And.
Oh.My.Goodness.
The colors just...pop!...from this paper. This is the way the ink manufacturers must mean for their inks to be experienced.
Here's a link to the full-size image. It's big. It's worth the load time.
Check this out...
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| Diamine Majestic Blue |
And this...
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| Pilot Iroshizuku Fuyu Syogun |
So. If you're in love with paper and inks and pens and such - Tomoe River Paper is a must try. It's definitely not an everyday paper for me (wrinkles easily, you know), but wow. Wow.
Have you tried Tomoe River Paper? What other papers do you love?
I have not tried that paper. I'd be happy to find some lovely, not-too-expensive, lined letter writing paper that is fountain pen friendly. Does it even exist?
ReplyDeleteInteresting question! Most writing papers are unlined. There is Clairefontaine Triomphe. Here's a link to it at Goulet Pens. http://www.gouletpens.com/Clairefontaine_Triomphe_Lined_A5_Package_Set_p/package-triomphea5l.htm
ReplyDeleteAnd here's a link to an ink review where I used Triomphe http://pentulant.blogspot.com/2012/11/pen-review-libelle-autumn-leaves.html
And..here's a bit of a paper review - you can see how the same inks look on a variety of papers. http://pentulant.blogspot.com/2013/06/ink-drop-may-2013.html
But back to your question - there must be other fountain pen safe lined writing papers - I'll need to hunt them down and do a post about them!