I just splurged today on a box of Fabriano Medioevalis paper/card stock.It came 100 pcs tp the box and is very nice to write with.I didn't find much on a search and am curious if anyone else here has experience with this brand.And reactions to it.
So far,i have written one letter and it is very nice.Expensive,but nice.Only drawback was that they are a bit too large for my 6 Bar envelopes!!

Thoughts???

JD
Vancouver,Wa

I like the paper and think that Swisher pens has it on sale $26 for 100 sheets. I bought some at a local store and cut id down to size to fit in my envelopes and even built envelopes around it. I use a fiskar table cutter with the little exacto knife in a slot and it works great. I have also used it as parts to popup mechanical letters that I have sent to some people.

The paper is thick and has a definite texture that gives your writing a destinctive look.

Thumbs up from me. And the box the paper comes in has a really neat pattern on it

K

I have correspondence cards and envelopes from them. The cards are wonderfully thick, somewhat textured, and appear hand-made. Is that the same type you have? Ink looks great on them. Go forth and correspond!

Indeed they are a delight.I just penned a letter to my aunt and used a few of them along with a handmade envelope fashioned out of 70lb Fox River Country Cream paper.Perfect fit and now it is ready to go.The papaer has no ink feathering whatsoever and is very soft to the pen and fingers.
I cannot beleiev i have been shelling out good money for envelopes all these years and not making them myself.Goes to show it takes some of us old dogs a long time to learn
Sure saves money as well.

I admit i like the Arturo paper but it is just too pricey.My local vendor for fine stationary wants almost $100 for the same quantity and size that Medioevalis makes,and similar feel and weight.Not sure why such a large difference in price.Both were viewed at retail stores,not wholesale shoppes.

I will look about online for more of this fine brand of paper.

JD

I've used Fabriano for almost a decade, making cards for various occasions. Highly recommended, great paper, holds up well to all kinds of inks and glue used to hold bit of art paper and such.

A local art store used to sell it in single sheets, but they started selling it only in boxes. For people in the Boston area, Bob Slate stationers now sells it in single sheets and whole boxes, in the Harvard Square location on Mass. Ave.

Bob Slate in Harvard Square has sold the Fabriano cards both individually and in boxes for years and years, but I've not yet seen the full sized sheets there. Will have to check it out. Until bought out by Dick Blick, the Art Store in Boston's Landmark Center sold boxes of Fabriano cards rather inexpensively, considering the price at other places. Dick Blick doesn't seem to stock them anymore. They do stock some pretty funny and interesting cards though--parodies of major works of European art.

Yep, that's where I started buying Fabriano after Pearl Art Supply got out of the fine stationery business (the Central Square store also had a great fountain pen counter in the 1990s..).

Bob Slate Stationers should be able to order sizes/styles that they don't keep on the shelves, but if they can, I'm sure one would have to order by the box.

Is there an online source for letter sheets, as opposed to cards? I'd love to try the paper, but just haven't found any.
gary

I have the small cards with small envelopes the same size. These are just GREAT
for any time you need a gift enclosure card. Write what you want on the card,
put it in the little matching envelope, and attach it or put inside the gift wrap.
They are very stiff, slightly textured cream colored cards. (I don't buy those
little gift enclosure cards any more-- we just use these plain ones.) The
envelopes are too tiny to mail. Mine were from www.danielsmith.com,
an art supply dealer in the Seattle area with an on-line and mail order option
as well.

Having read this topic, i when to my local art supply store ASW in Huntington Beach, Cal and found that they carried this brand. So I got a box of the 115mm by 170mm single cards, 100 for $17.13. Very nice paper. letters will be going out thanks handlebar for the tip. I would not have looked for stationary this trip, but I am glad I did.

Now to fold envelopes.


Joi

Hurrah! I just bought a set of the large single cards and matching envelopes in the Fabriano Medioevalis for my daughter's wedding invitations! I was betting that such a fine paper would be fountain pen friendly, and you all have confirmed that. Critically important, as I will not only hand address the envelopes, but I will also hand write the invitations!!!!!!! I intend to include the name of the guest in each invitation. I haven't decided which of the following wordings to use, however--any opinions? experience?


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Traditional to use black or deep blue ink, but it seems to me that one might also use Havana Brown on the creamy paper, or maybe Dr. Zhivago?
Joaquina

Once you get the hang of making your envelopes,it all becomes such a satisfying experience. So much more hands on.

Jim

For different styeles of wedding invitation, have a look at

http://www.weddingguideuk.com/articles/pla...tionwording.asp

It might be just me but the word presence seems not to belong in a wedding invitation, because it is a bit cold and remote.

I appreciate your observation about the word "presence," and the link to the UK invitation website. I agree that "company" seems warmer than "presence," but American formal tradition distinguishes between invitations to churches and invitations to other venues by using the phrase "honor of your presence" in the former and "pleasure of your company" in the later case. Hopefully, a handwritten invitation will have a friendlier feel than an engraved one, despite the stiff wording; otherwise, my effort will be in vain..

1. I'm interested in the distinction you observed. I've noticed it, but never picked up on the context. Did you come across a reference observing the two separate practices?

2. I don't know about "friendlier," but a handwritten invitation will seem much more thoughtful, authentic, interesting. Kudos to you for taking the time. Your daughter must be (or, when she's older, will be) very pleased and grateful.

3. FWIW, since you've probably already started the process, I prefer the second wording choice (request the honor of their presence, not request the honor of the presence of them).

I quite agree with the "honour of your presence" sans names as a better alternative to the original.

As to the distinction between presence and company, one is less stiffly formal than the other and the suitability does depend on circumstances.

See also http://www.essortment.com/lifestyle/propermannersw_sikl.htm for an interesting distinction, i.e., who is paying for the event! I was not aware of such a fine point.

Several different cases are laid out -- http://www.affordableweddinginvitations.ne...on_wording_list