The Takeo Dressco Onionskin Notebook Large gives Takeo’s revived KateJo paper a bigger page to work on. KateJo is onion-skin: very thin, faintly translucent, with a soft crumpled texture the sort of sheet once chosen for airmail, when every gram counted. Here it runs to 200 pages behind a pearlescent Star Dream cover, in a book measuring 145 by 198 millimetres and just 6 millimetres thick.

Hold a page to the light and your own handwriting shows faintly through from the other side, which is part of the character of writing on something this thin rather than a fault in it. A fountain pen glides instead of biting, and the whole notebook weighs almost nothing in a bag. Choose this one when the smaller KateJo notebook keeps running out of room across the page.

What Makes It Work So Well

• It weighs nothing: You carry 200 pages in a book barely thicker than a magazine, so it comes with you without ever making itself felt.
• It suits a fountain pen: You lay down a wet line and the KateJo surface takes it cleanly, with none of the drag a coated paper gives you.
• It never feels ordinary: You open it and that faint translucency reminds you this isn’t standard notebook paper the writing becomes a small occasion.

Please note: This is the larger-format KateJo notebook, with bigger pages but fewer of them. If you want 300 pages in a more compact book, choose the standard Onionskin Notebook.

Details

• Brand: Takeo
• Product Line: Dressco
• Type: Onionskin Notebook (Large)
• Size: 145 198 6 mm
• Pages: 200
• Paper: KateJo onion-skin (thin, translucent)
• Cover: Star Dream pearlescent paper
• Endpapers: Arabale
• Country of Origin: Japan