Monsieur Notebooks with Vegetable Tanned Leather Covers
A Stack of Monsieur Leather Notebooks
Tom from Hide Stationery recently sent over a few review and giveaway samples of these great looking Monsieur Notebooks that are made with vegetable tanned leather covers and hand made in India. Check out the review, and then read the rules below `to see how you can enter to win two of your very own.
The Monsieur notebooks are available in A4, A5, and A6 sizes with ruled or plain paper, and they come in either black, brown, or tan vegetable tanned leather. Each cover is unique because of small differences in the grain of the leather and they also have different slightly different patterns in the coloring. Inside of each notebook there is a refreshing bit of nothingness other than a spot in the front for your name or other information. I personally like the fact that the front and back are not stuffed with maps, lists of abbreviations and commonly misspelled words, and there is no pocket…sometimes simple is best.
The Monsieur Notebooks Open
One of the things that people are often curious about with new unfamiliar notebooks is how they open and if they lay flat. With the Monsieur notebooks there is a very stiff feeling when they are brand new, but much like breaking in a new baseball glove, you can cajole this notebook into opening almost flat for the most part. I’m sure that as time goes by it gets a bit looser and will lay even flatter too.
The Monsieur Notebooks Logo - Mustachioed and Monocle Clad
One of my favorite things about the Monsieur notebook is the logo, a mustachioed and monocle clad face that is neatly tucked away on the back cover, and there is also a very small one printed on the paper of the inside cover. The classy looking gentleman’s face adds a bit of charm to an already luxurious and very proper feeling notebook.
Monsieur Notebook Writing Sample
Writing in the Monsieur notebook was a very nice experience. The paper handled all of the inks I tried with it which included gel ink, fountain pen ink, and a Sharpie Pen. None of these inks showed any feathering although there was a minor amount of show through on the other side of the page. The 192 ruled pages of ivory 90g paper in this A6 version have a nice grey ruling in them that are spaced at 6mm.
