Which Lined Stationery Is Your Favorite?

[Margana]

Unlined products are easy to find but high quality lined paper isn't so common. Which lined stationery is your favorite for use with fountain pens?

[RayMan]

Clairefontaine Triomphe. Nirvana for fountain pens.

[Chthulhu]

I use a bright white Howard Linen paper onto which I print my own faint, lavender lines.

[hookem11]

Clairfontaine Triomphe and Clairfontaine A4 Lined Margin Soft Cover Clothbound Notebook

[zquilts]

Clairefontaine Triomphe , G.Lalo and Clairefontain Pollen Paper for cards in an array of glorious colors !

[GreenVelvet]

Clairefontaine Triomphe. Nirvana for fountain pens.

 

I adore Clairfontaine Triomphe blank paper, but when I get a yen for lines, I find the rule waaaaay to wide on this for me. I wish there were a narrower rule option, though I know I'm kinda weird with my occasionally-microscopic handwriting.

[GreenVelvet]

G.Lalo

 

G. Lalo makes a lined paper? Really? I need to check this out!

[BillZ]

I occasionally used Crane lined letter sheets. They are 6-3/8"x 8-1/2". The problem I ahd is that the set contains 20 envelopes and 20 sheets. The unlined version ahs 20 envelopes and 40 sheets. Since Iwas regularly using two sheets/letter I was amassing a large pile of envelopes! Plus the price is similar for both. Eventually I trained myself to write a reasonably straight sentence with out lines.

[Gran]

I've looked through the G. Lalo catalogue at Exaclair, and I don't see any lined stationery:

 

http://www.exaclair.com/brands_glalo.shtml

 

Maybe I missed it.

[CraigR]

Clairefontaine Triomphe is my favorite lined paper because it is compatible with most of my pen and ink combinations. /Craig

[gross]

Clairefontaine Triomphe. Nirvana for fountain pens.

 

I adore Clairfontaine Triomphe blank paper, but when I get a yen for lines, I find the rule waaaaay to wide on this for me. I wish there were a narrower rule option, though I know I'm kinda weird with my occasionally-microscopic handwriting.

 

My favorite paper is also Clairefontaine Triomphe but I also sometimes wish its lines were a bit closer together.

[dayonfire]

Where is the best place (online) to purchase Triomphe?

[hookem11]

I like www.nota-bene.ca/

[Margana]

Thanks for the suggestions. I've purchased Triomphe from Pendemonium and like others find the line spacing to be a bit generous. Suitable for my wide nibs but that isn't always what I want to use. Triomphe is perfectly good paper but too plain for all circumstances. Even a cream or ivory colored stock would provide some variety. Hopefully, something will turn up.

[playpen]

Clairefontaine.

[Margana]

Is there another lined Clairefontaine stationery besides Triomphe?

[Gran]

Someone at Exaclair could give you an answer:

 

http://www.exaclair.com/

 

Hope they have something you like!

Edited September 17, 2009 by Gran

[Sheila]

Rhodia is my all-time favorite...I like the spiral-bound pads in 5.8 x 8.3 inch size.

 

Edited to add that the Staples brand notebooks are fantastic for fountain pens if you look for the ones that say "Made in Brazil." For around a dollar each, you can't beat them for value!

 

Also available at Staples are the Eco-friendly pads (legal size and junior legal) that are made from sugar cane. They come in multi-packs and work out to around a dollar each. The paper is great with fountain pens, and they are even cheaper than Ampad Gold Fibre which isn't much good anymore.

Edited September 17, 2009 by Sheila

[Margana]

Thanks for the suggestions. Actually I'm looking for lined stationery especially in a color other than white. I have tons of lined notebook paper and journals of all sorts. Rhodia has been my favorite general use paper for years and Staples bagasse became my inexpensive, use with abandon paper as soon as it showed up in my local store. Though I have written many letters on Rhodia, it lacks the texture and weight of a good correspondence stationery and sometimes only that level of quality will do.

 

There is nothing on the Exaclair or the Clairefontaine websites that fits the bill. It appears that the plain-looking white though lined Triomphe is the only option and there are already several tablets of it in my paper stash. I also have several tablets of a Japanese paper that is great with fountain pens but it is white, too.

 

Thanks for the input, FPNers. Seems I am looking for a product that doesn't exist...yet.

[bwnewton]

Have you tried some of the laid paper? Though it doesn't have printed lines, would the "laid" lines provide enough guidance?