The Explorer Journal from Endless offers a stylish modern refillable journal which has a whole host of complementary accessories available to it.
Made from full grain leather, the explorer journal is designed to be used with the Endless Large Storyboard notebooks. Each journal is supplied with one complementary black cover storyboard notebook and two extra holding bands for two notebooks. Each notebook contains 48 pages of high quality 68gsm Tomoe River Paper with a ruled layout.
Tomoe River paper first started life as a lightweight printing stock paper for high-quality catalogues and mailings where a high page count is required, but the paper quality needs to be high to convey the feel of a quality brochure. As Tomoe River is a super-lightweight and one sheet weighs a negligible 3.24 grams - that's over a third lighter than a single sheet of standard 80gsm copier paper. When posting catalogues, this is an obvious advantage: you can post a catalogue with more pages for less money. But where do fountain pens come into all this? Well, someone, somewhere, thought the paper felt nice to the touch (it does - silky smooth) and thought they'd try using it as writing paper. To their surprise, as well as the surprise of the paper makers themselves, it performed amazingly well with fountain pens and has become something of a cult product ever since.
The qualities that make this paper ideal for posted brochures are also qualities fountain pen users look for in their paper. Despite its apparent fragility, the paper has an uncanny ability: it doesn't feather like most other lightweight papers seem to. Written lines stay as crisp as the moment you wrote them, even, we’re told, when using the most feathery inks available. This lack of feathering doesn't come at the expense of having to tolerate bleed-through either as there is none. The paper is so wafer-thin you can practically see through it, so 'ghosting' of the reverse is visible.
For storage options, the Endless offers a conveniently sized wallet with options for storage including card holders and pouches for notebooks and charging cables.
Leather sleeve measures 160 x 99mm. Notebook measures 150 x 89mm. Presented in an attractive black giftbox.
