The Takeo Dressco Onionskin Notebook is built around a paper most people thought had disappeared. When the last Japanese onion-skin paper was discontinued in 2010, Takeo worked with a specialist mill to revive it as “KateJo” a very thin, faintly translucent sheet with a delicate crumpled texture. The result is 300 pages of something genuinely unusual: light as air, yet a pleasure to write on.

Onion-skin paper was once the writer’s choice for airmail, prized for its lightness. Here it’s paired with a slim coloured cover and a special binding that lets all 300 pages fall open flat. Fountain pens and pencils sit beautifully on its surface, and the faint translucency lets your words cast a soft shadow onto the sheet beneath part of the character of writing on paper like this.

Why You’ll Love It

• It holds a whole project: You get 300 wafer-thin pages in a notebook barely thicker than usual, so a long journal or manuscript lives in a single volume.
• It opens flat, every page: You write from the first page to the last without the binding fighting back, thanks to the flexible spine.
• It rewards a fountain pen: You lay down a wet line and the KateJo surface takes it cleanly, giving an airmail-thin, old-world feel modern paper rarely offers.

Details

• Brand: Takeo
• Product Line: Dressco
• Type: Onionskin Notebook
• Paper: KateJo onion-skin (thin, translucent)
• Pages: 300
• Size: 108 152 9 mm
• Binding: Lay-flat glue binding
• Country of Origin: Japan