![]() The current Moleskine notebooks are based on the original les carnets moleskines, and the cover is made of black oilcloth like the original. About a decade after that, Modo & Modo could no longer handle the international demand for their product and was purchased by a larger company who changed the company's name to. They had been gone for about ten years when Italian manufacturer Modo & Modo brought them back to life and registered the name Moleskine as a trademark in 1996. The last Moleskine manufacturer did indeed cease operations in the mid 1980s and Les carnets moleskines became extinct. In English Le vrai moleskine n'est plus comes out "The true moleskine is no more". She removed her spectacles and, almost with an air of mourning, said, "Le vrai moleskine n'est plus." She promised to telephone Tours at once, that afternoon.Īt five, I kept my appointment with Madame. "I'd like to order a hundred," I said to Madame. They were very slow in answering letters. There was one supplier: a small family business in Tours. Some months before I left for Australia, the owner of the papeterie said that the vrai moleskine was getting harder and harder to get. ![]() To lose a passport was the least of one's worries: to lose a notebook was a catastrophe. I wrote my name and address on the front page, offering a reward to the finder. The pages were squared and the end papers held in place with an elastic band. Each time I went to Paris, I would buy fresh supply from a papeterie in the Rue de l'Ancienne Comedie. In France, these notebooks are known as carnets moleskines: 'moleskine', in this case, being its black oilcloth binding. If you want to read everything he wrote about the Moleskine Notebooks, you'll have to get the book, but here are are a few excerpts: Most of what we know about the original moleskine notebooks - including their French name - comes from a description by writer Bruce Chatwin in his book The Songlines The word moleskine means imitation leather in French, so no moles were skinned to make the notebooks. These blank books were known in France as les carnets moleskines which is translated moleskine notebooks in English. The Moleskine notebook is based on a style of blank book which was originally produced by several manufacturers. The appearance, exit and reappearance of the Moleskine My preferred sketching media are pretty much limited to ink and watercolor and sometimes pencil, and I'm very picky about my sketchbook, and I write from that perspective. ![]() This article is written for "pocket sketchers" who like to carry a small sketchbook in the back pocket, ready to sketch at a moment's notice. Gregory's book An Illustrated Life: Drawing Inspiration from the Private Sketchbooks of Artists, Illustrators and Designers shows how closely the Moleskine is associated with this phenomenon. People who hadn't considered themselves artists suddenly discovered they could find great fulfillment through drawing and journaling. One reason for the Moleskine's surge in popularity is the "art journal" boom which was helped by people such as Danny Gregory who has written several books including Everyday Matters. I'm going to ignore that newer, expanded definition as far as I'm concerned a Moleskine is still a small black notebook, and that is what this article is about. The most recent descriptions talk about the "Moleskine brand" which covers all kinds of products such writing instruments, bags, computer cases, booklights and glasses. Well, that was the definition of a Moleskine back when they first appeared on the market in the late 1990's. ![]() Moleskine pages are stitch bound, and this allows them to lie flat when open. So what's all the fuss about Moleskines? And just what is a Moleskine?Ī Moleskine (pronounced mo-leh-skeen'-eh) is a small pocket size blank book with a black textured oilcloth cover which resembles leather, a permanently attached ribbon bookmark, a pocket on the inside back cover and elastic band to hold the cover closed when not in use. Several blogs and websites are dedicated to the Moleskine. A lot of artists swear by these little notebooks, and others are annoyed at all the hype surrounding them and their cult status. When I checked the links in the "Sketchers on the Web" section of the Sketching Forum I was amazed at how many photos of Moleskines I saw.
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