Flying Tiger travellers' style notebook

[sandy101]

Flying Tiger Copenhagen are selling a travellers' style notebook, for the princely sum of £4, and comes with 3 notebooks - 1 dot, 1 lined and one square. I didn't see any refillls.

 

The leather(?) Cover is rudimentary.  A rectangle of material with elastic bands to hold everything together.

 

The notebooks come with heavy kraft covers and there is a pouch at the front, and impractical card holder at the back.

 

However, the paper in the notebooks is very fountain pen friendly. No bleed through as of yet - maybe a little stiff, but at the price, very good. 

 

I also bought a couple of their case bound notebooks. £4 each, 70 GSM, but looking OK for some do ink. 

 

[Misfit]

Thank you for sharing this. I’d be interested, except I decided to stop buying leather notebooks. 

[Misfit]

Is this the one you meant?

 

https://flyingtiger.com/products/notebook-3040234?_gl=1*16pcy4s*_up*MQ..*_ga*MTEyMjM1OTU5Ni4xNjU5OTI1MjQ5*_ga_6C7F3V1WH3*MTY1OTkyNTI0OC4xLjEuMTY1OTkyNjA3NS4w

[sandy101]

Yes, that's it. I put "leather" - I suspect that it probably isn't - it is probably fake, but there's no label to say what it is. 

[Misfit]

They do seem to like sustainable items. 

[txomsy]

At that price I would seriously doubt they are authentic leather. It could be PU "leather" as most Chinese "leather" notebooks use, or perhaps some different fiber made material. Surface tact should help get a feeling for what it is made of.

[amberleadavis]

Oh my, that cost me an hour just enjoying the website. 

 

[webgeckos]

I bought orange elastic, and I have a lot of Buttero, Pueblo and Minerva Box leather. I was thinking of making a typical Traveller cover but have the left side have a card slot, things like that.

[txomsy]

A couple of days ago I happened upon one of their B&M shops. I had taken a few days off and visited to Lugo in the North of Spain. Came in looking for these, which they didn't have, and came out with two sets of two Kraft paper pocket notebooks at $2 the pack of two. These are cream colored paper, with thick Kraft paper covers and black fabric knitted spine. Sheets seem glued. The label says they are made in China, and I haven't tested any yet.

 

I got them to fit in a leather notebook sleeve for 9x14cm notebooks so I can take them when traveling. They'll do for my sleeve, but I don't think they are good for a traveler notebook (may fit in a passport-sized one, but since sheets seem to be glued, they may not take well to the elastic band).