Category: Paper

More Inexpensive Fountain Pen-Friendly Paper: Wheat Straw Printer Paper

Laura14 Comments

Step Forward Wheat Straw paper

Okay, I am not someone who delves deeply into the paper end of the fountain pen hobby, admittedly, but I was surprised by this one. Wheat straw paper?

Yes: wheat straw has been turned into paper.  Initially, this was puzzling. But my dad used to eat shredded wheat cereal for breakfast. That stuff definitely tasted like paper.

Thus, wheat straw paper. It works nicely with fountain pen inks, appears to be better for the environment than regular paper, and it’s inexpensive. So I’m going to give this a try.

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Found Some Inexpensive Fountain-Pen Friendly Spiral Notebooks

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Mead 70 Sheet Spiral Notebook

Back-to-school time is the most wonderful time of the year for those of us who are parents of teenagers. Our beloved progeny will once again be occupied for at least seven hours every weekday, in a building somewhere else, under the supervision of someone else.  Thank you, compulsory state education.

Also, school supplies are on sale! I always try to pick up some low-price paper when the superstores and office supply stores bring it in at low prices. This year I tried some Mead 70-sheet spiral notebooks made in the USA, on sale at Target for $3 for four notebooks.

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Rock, Scissors, Paper

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writing samples on Eaton's Eminence Onion Skin paper

I was helping my father look for some things when I came across an old box of typing paper. Marked 49 cents, it’s a 100-sheet box of typewriter paper. The box says onion skin, 9 pounds, and 25 percent cotton fiber content.

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