Paperblanks Lindau Gospels

In Holland we have on the evening of december 5th the celebration of Saint Nicholas. That's when we give each other presents and make rhymes with the presents. You can compare it with Christmas morning when parents give presents to the kids under the Christmas tree. Saint Nicholas is coming from Spain with a boat and has a white horse. It is similar to Santa Claus. Saint Nicholas is dressed like the picture on the right.
My wife bought for me a Paperblanks Lindau Gospels notebook. It is a luxury notebook with a magnetic clip. This Paperblanks is a true amazingly fine piece of art.


Lindau Gospels
The covers of the Lindau Gospels were designed to inspire awe in early Christian onlookers. The book was carried in processions and displayed on altars. Its component parts originate from different times and places; The back cover is recorded as being created near Salzburg between 750 - 800 AD. Originally tooled in gilt, silver and enamel and elaborately decorated with juwels, it is a powerful manifestation of art as a vehicle for belief.


The outside
It has an outstanding design with a magnetic clip that fades into the rest of the artwork. When opening this masterpiece the book lays flat on the table. It has the feel an the looks of a very expensive piece of work.


The book feels rich but feels also very solid. The pictures on the outside are very detailed. If you keep looking you see each time something new.


The inside
On the inside the beauty continues. It has a firm back pocket and a nice orange ribbon. Everything breaths luxury in this beautiful notebook. It is not as the Rhodia webbook where on every page you see the company logo. In this Paperblanks only a small logo in front of the book.




The paper
It may all be beauty but if the paper sucks it is just a lousy notebook. But that is not the truth here. The paper is great! No really! It is lined with a very thin dotted line every 8mm (0,31inch). The line are not going to the end of every page but stop at 10mm (0,39inch) of the page. The color is whiter then Moleskine paper, but not as white as Rhodia paper.


It is really amazing paper. No ink I have showed bleed through of feathering. Drying times of fountain pen ink was a bit longer then on Moleskine, but was not as long as Rhodia paper. To bad they don't make just plain black notebooks. On the website I only could find true art pieces.

How I use it
I could not just use it for taking notes. I wanted this beautiful book for important things. I decided to write in this book al the wisdom quotes I like.


Facts
Dimensions 180mm x 230mm (7" x 9")
144 pages
Magnetic closure
Fountain pen proof with a lot of inks

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