French Paper Company

[Flake]

So I stumbled onto the French Paper Company on recommendation from a professor for a silkscreening project. It arrived yesterday and my first thought was "I bet fountain pens would work GREAT on this". Yes, I am an addict.

 

While working today I tried it and I think I found a new favorite looseleaf. It's smooth, comfortable to write on, shows off shading nicely and is relatively inexpensive (for nice paper anywho).

 

I tried out the 5 pens I had with me, a Mont Blanc 144 M, Namiki Falcon SF, TWISBI M Stub, VIsconti Rembrandt M and a Mont Blanc Marlene Dietrich F. The TWISBI felt a little scratchy but all the others wrote lik a dream. It's about the only paper so far that doesn't make my MB M feel incredibly thick. Feathering, if it occurs it all is VERY minimal. Bleed is seemingly nonexistant (but this is 70# printmaking paper so I wouldn't expect any) Just thought it was a nice surprise for the day and should be pretty amazing for making journals with. Coptic is my first project with it, we'll see how it goes.

 

Mont Blanc 144 M - Yama Budo

FPC Construction Whitewash 70#

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Edited May 3, 2012 by Flake

[CaptainGroovy]

I had just stumbled onto the French Paper web site last night. I spent a little time surfing site around and found their history page interesting and enjoyed watching the can be found in the "Sample Room" the videos. If we the top video on the sample page we now know a little more information about "Field Notes".

[Miksang]

French Paper is absolutely amazing paper. I would highly recommend it to anyone. It's also 100% recycled and made with hydro electricity!