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Carrying on from yesterday’s post, Strikethru mentioned another great Vancouver stationer. A counterpoint to Paper-Ya, The Regional Assembly of Text is not in a tourist area, and focuses on products from individual craftspeople and small presses, rather than prominent brands. The store is decorated as an homage to typewriters, filing cabinets, and yesteryear’s offices. It [...] Please let me express my appreciation to Cheryl of Strikethru for this post – it formed a wonderful guide to two stationery treasures that I recently visited. Paper-Ya is located on Granville Island, a vibrant arts district in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The island is easily (and probably best) traversed on foot. Notable landmarks include [...] It seems to have been a while since this blog has been so excited about a new stationery product. The notebooks shown here are from Design.Y, the brand of Mr. Hiroshi Yoshino-san, a bookbinder from Sendai, Japan. The products are amazing because every aspect of the notebook is of exceptional quality – the cover, the [...] This is the season when we celebrate the harvest. My friends in the US just celebrated Thanksgiving – a holiday which is also celebrated in Canada, though in October. Of course, many countries and regions have their own versions of harvest festivals. A fond childhood memory for me was the annual fall trip to Royal [...] Doing some fall cleaning, I found a dozen Clairefontaine A4 notebooks from student days in the late 1980s/early 1990s. The notebooks strongly resemble the current offerings, and have held up very well over time. Good job, Clairefontaine! An unexpected local find, the Düller Memo Pad. An elongated notepad, the paper features a dotted grid. The cover is a very nice forest green. Shown here with a Düller Dietrich Lubs fountain pen: |
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