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I love narrow ruled paper, have loved it ever since I first discovered it while studying in Britain. It is not sold in Germany, I have discovered. At all. Not even imported, not online, nowhere. So, I am looking for a place I can buy a bunch of narrow lined pads, preferably Rhodia or Clairefontaine. A place outside Germany that will ship them to Germany. Any thoughts? (Amazon UK has a few products, none of which ship to Germany.)

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Bureau Direct, a UK based company, will supply anything from the Rhodia range (though some items are special order and you have to take the whole pack) and will ship to Germany. As the items are not leaving the EU at any point, this shouldn't be much more expensive than dealing with a French supplier. However, it would seem best to deal direct with a French company if possible, as you can pay in Euros and the items won't be shipped internationally twice.

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I have never seen narrow ruled Rhodia; two solutions might be the squared paper (5mmx5mm squares) or the Clairefontaine Seyes paper (2mm lines - you can take up as many as you like).

 

Clairefontaine make Rhodia, but Rhodia paper is 80gsm to Clairefontaine's 90gsm.

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Assuming the original poster wants full A4 sheets when detached from the pad, the Rhodia options are, according to the back of my A4 pad:

 

Number 19 (unpunched) - 5x5mm squares, lined and margin (7mm lines with 40mm margin), blank

Number 19 (unpunched) in yellow - blank

Number 20 (4 hole punched) - 5x5mm squares, Séyès

Number 119 (4 hole punched) - lined and margin

Number 119 (4 hole punched) in yellow - lined and margin

Number 120 (4 hole punched) in 4 assorted colours - 5x5mm squares, Séyès

 

The distinction between Numbers 20 and 119 is pretty arbitrary!

 

 

In other words, the Rhodia options are 5x5mm squares, 7mm lines with 40mm margin, blank or Séyès. All these are available in punched or unpunched, apart from blank, which is unpunched only.

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I love narrow ruled paper,

 

What actual line spacing are you looking for? And do you want it for writing paper or note paper / filing? Holed or unpunched?

I have 2 suggestions. Clairefontaine Triomphe A4 lined writing paper, 90gsm, or the new Rhodia Wnite and Silver with slightly narrower lines and a margin (80gsm) which will be slightly smaller than A4 when removed from the top stapled notepad.

 

Here's a comparison. Rhodia on the right. If you'd like samples PM me.

 

 

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I love narrow ruled paper too - there used to be one store that carried pads when I was a kid (yep, loved paper and pens even as a kid back in the days when a green bic was an exciting and daringly coloured pen). It is the only time I have ever seen it and they no longer carry it. My solution was to print my own lined paper and slip it under a blank sheet. Not ideal but the standard rule is just too wide for my taste.

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Wow, thanks for the many replies.

 

I think what I think of as narrow ruled is 6mm. I have a few pads of this, brought back whenever I travel to the UK or Ireland, but some of my inks don't work so well with this. These inks do, however, work just fine on Rhodia and Clairefontaine.

 

Hence, my quest to find a) narrow ruled A4 paper produced by either company, B) somebody who sells it to me and sends it to Germany. I only mentioned Rhodia above simply because they are usually cheaper, and I anticipate horrifying postage costs for paper.

Okay, I used to have the Letter Writers Alliance and The Snail Mail Exchange in here. Somehow, my browsers settings and the forum's settings work together to prevent that from being the case at the moment. Whenever I try to update my signature, the whole process breakls down. So. Whatever.

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What actual line spacing are you looking for? And do you want it for writing paper or note paper / filing? Holed or unpunched?

I have 2 suggestions. Clairefontaine Triomphe A4 lined writing paper, 90gsm, or the new Rhodia Wnite and Silver with slightly narrower lines and a margin (80gsm) which will be slightly smaller than A4 when removed from the top stapled notepad.

 

I mainly want to write letters, so unpunched would be nice. That Clairfontaine looks good. What is the line spacing?

Okay, I used to have the Letter Writers Alliance and The Snail Mail Exchange in here. Somehow, my browsers settings and the forum's settings work together to prevent that from being the case at the moment. Whenever I try to update my signature, the whole process breakls down. So. Whatever.

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I think it will be too wide for you if you want 6mm. It's about 7.5mm. Let me know if you want me to send you some sample pages. I'll be happy to.

 

There are two other options. Look for Japanese notepaper as they do very narrow lines. Something like Kokuyo or Life paper. Or buy plain paper and print your own template to use underneath. Templates can be downloaded from http://www.printablepaper.net/ or http://incompetech.com/graphpaper/writing.html

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