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Manufactus "No Bag" Refillable Leather Journal

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Manufactus "No Bag" Refillable Leather Journal

Name: Manufactus "No Bag" Refillable Leather Journal
Brand: Manufactus
SKU: manufactus-no-bag
Price: 60 USD
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Rating: 4.538462 (13 reviews)

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Handcrafted in Italy by the artisan leatherworkers at Luca Natalizia Legatoria, each Manufactus "No Bag" Leather Journal is cut from full-grain, vegetable-tanned calf leather, selected from one of six tanneries outside Rome that have been supplying the company since just after its founding in 1910. The included A5-size notebook holds 128 pages of cream-colored lined or unlined 90 gsm pages and fits snugly inside the supple cover, which can accommodate refills of different thicknesses Read More

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Linkdeath

Mar 20, 2015

I was actually curious if anyone knew if the paper in them is any good for use with fountain pens, or is it too absorbent?

Neralo

132

Mar 21, 2015

Linkdeathbought one of these when i went to milan last year, still using the book that came with it in the first place. unfortunately, there tends to be a lot of bleed through and feathering. Im using noodler's inks (Warden series and Red-Black), on EF and F nibbed pens.
you can of course, get a better notebook from rhodia or clairefontaine, so long as its A5, and no more than 4 cm thick, you can replace the stock one.

newtonslife

Mar 21, 2015

Linkdeathme too !

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TacticalDan

Mar 20, 2015

These look beautiful. Anyone know of a good replacement journal for them? I was looking at the Moleskine's but they aren't quite the same size.

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xinglongneo

Mar 21, 2015

TacticalDanI'm debating buying this, but if I do get it, I'll put in a Seven Seas Writer or Standard, sold by Nanami Paper. These are a bit expensive (I'm a fountain pen user and these notebooks have excellent quality paper for fountain pens--the mystical Tomoe River Paper). You could check out jetpens.com or gouletpens.com for other notebooks of the A5 size.

AM_CoffeeDrinker

Apr 3, 2015

TacticalDanI read [somewhere] that the Clairefontaine Collection 1951 Notebooks

are good replacements and work very well with our fountain pens. There was a sale of these not long ago and I gabbed 5 especially for this leather journal cover.

warriorscot

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Mar 20, 2015

So will this ship from Italy to the USA and then back to Europe for European customers? The shipping price is actually very reasonable, but on general principle that isn't something that I really wanting to be supporting doing(especially as it adds tax on as well as carbon).

newtonslife

Mar 21, 2015

warriorscotas the shipping to the uk is $5 I suspect its being shipped direct to here (uk ) from There (italy) Anything going from the USA to the uk is about 5 times that price

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csbruun

Mar 21, 2015

OK, why is it called "No Bag"?

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RubyOpaltones

Apr 3, 2015

csbruunYes, I was wondering that too...

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JonasHeineman

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Apr 21, 2015

csbruunSo yeah...that's a great question, and I would love to know that myself. I didn't ask, here's why:
In the course of trying to do business with a very small Italian company, we needed many, many other details about this drop - leather colors, tanning process, sizes and paper styles, production schedule, shipping times, customs tariffs, etc. Fortunately, their English is better than my Italian.
So, now that we got the actual drop handled and I am not risking complicating all of this any further, I would be more than happy to inquire and will post an update if/when we get one.
Thanks @csbruun and @RubyOpaltones @katerchen. I hope to have an answer before these ship.

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dsouthwick

Mar 20, 2015

Yes, I would also like to know with what to replace/"refill" the pages with

DWoody

Aug 8, 2017

Can I just purchase a pack of A5 refills? I have another Manufactus journal, and love the thick paper..

ssmiles

Jul 20, 2015

Here is yet another vote to add the option of "No Thanks" to the refills. Great buy as a folio cover, crap buy if it's $24 more just so Ai can throw away another 3 stacks of non-fountain pen friendly moleskine paper. I hope, HOPE!, that this is just a simple oversight and not a horrible bait and switch scheme.