New Arrivals: MD Product Dot Grid Notebooks! B6 Slim, A6, and A7 Sizes Now Available!

While it would have been fun to have had these in time for the two pen shows we attended over the past two weeks, it was still nice to arrive in town to three huge boxes from MD Products, containing a restock of many different items as well as an expanded lineup of notebooks featuring their popular dot grid layout! MD Paper is one of my favorite fountain pen friendly paper options, and the dot grid paper has always been among the most popular. It’s now available in B6, A7, and A6 sizes, in addition to the standard A5.

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Three new sizes of dot grid notebooks, from left: B6 Slim, A6, and A7.

We’ve also received a fresh restock of MD Cotton A5 Notebooks, MD Codex Day-to-a-Page Notebooks, and Clear Plastic Covers. Please note that the branding on the front of the MD notebooks will now read “MD Product” instead of “Midori MD”, though the paper remains the same.

You can come see these and more in-store this week during normal hours, from 1-6pm Thursday and Friday and from 10am-6pm on Saturday. Please be sure to check the shop page for any updates.

Weekly Drops: Stationery Fest Edition!

This week’s theme is “Stationery Fest,” with a focus on items beyond standard pens and writing instruments. As mentioned in Wednesday’s post, we’re attending the San Francisco Stationery Fest Friday through Sunday of this week. While we’ll have merchandise with us in San Francisco, there is stock of everything listed here available for purchase online and in the Nashville store, which remains open this weekend. New arrivals include Yamamoto Ro-Biki notebook refills, which have been out of stock for some time, as well as TWSBI ECO Bahama Yellow Fountain Pens and the new Kaweco Sports! We’re especially excited to have the Yamamoto Paper restocked, as it’s been unavailable for quite some time.

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We weren’t kidding when we said we ordered a lot of Canopus!

We will be set up at the Vanness Pens table at the San Francisco Stationery Fest, and will be hosting a live On the Paper Trail recording Friday night! The Nashville store will be open this weekend Thursday-Saturday 1pm-6pm each day.

1. TWSBI ECO Bahama Yellow Fountain Pen. The latest ECO release returns to silver trim, paired with a mustard-yellow acrylic that’s reminiscent of limited editions TWSBI did in Japan years ago. I’m super-excited to see this color added to the palette!

2. Kaweco Sport Lunar Light Green and Shadow Green Fountain Pens. Kaweco’s Spring releases have arrived, and we still have stock of the “Lunar” series Sport fountain pens.

3. Yamamoto Canopus Note A5 Notebooks. Last week we received a fresh shipment of the Canopus A5 Notebooks, and while we sold a LOT of them in Arkansas, we left some in inventory for the shop and they remain available.

4. Yamamoto Select Premium Japanese Papers. We have stock of several different types of Yamamoto looseleaf papers in the A4 size, including favorites such as Soliste, Light Force, and Canopus.

5. Yamamoto Paper Tasting Sampler Sets. Interested in exploring less common Japanese papers?

6. Yamamoto Ro-Biki Note Canvas Covers and Refills. One of the lesser-known “A5-Slim” notebook systems, Yamamoto’s in-house “Ro-Biki” refills feature Soliste paper and a canvas cover that incorporates a zippered case.

7. Yamamoto Bullet Jotters (Bible-Sized). These Bible-sized Jotters hold two pads of paper, which can be used as stand-alone tear-off notepads or hole-punched to fit a Bible-sized 6-ring binder.

8. Cloth & Paper Sticky Notes. We stock a wide range of different sticky notes from Richmond-based Cloth & Paper, including notes in different shapes and with varying degrees of translucency.

9. Cloth & Paper “Sidebar” Sticky Notes. These longer sticky notes can be used to format a notebook as a planner or simply as stand-alone notetaking and planning tools. Available in grid, task list, and weekly planner formats.

10. New Washi Tapes from iLootPaperie! We have new designs as well as restocks on old favorites from iLootPaperie, who we’ll be seeing in person this weekend at the SF Stationery Fest!

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New Arrivals: Roterfaden Taschenbegleiters in A5, B5, and A4!

On the heels of our restock shipment of the TGS_25 Roterfadens, we also received additional Taschenbegleiters in A5, B5, and A4, which were made available for purchase at the Arkansas Pen Show and are now available online. Most stock will be going with us to the San Francisco Stationery Fest on Thursday, where we will be set up with Vanness Pens, so if you would like to order one online and have it shipped before then, please be sure to get your order in by close of business on Wednesday.

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A size comparison of the A4, B5, and A5 Taschenbegleiters, from largest to smallest.

Please note that we will have slightly modified store hours this week due to show attendance. The Nashville shop will be open from 1pm-6pm Thursday through Saturday, with the change in hours being the later Saturday opening time. For those attending the San Francisco Stationery Fest, we look forward to seeing you there!

Weekly Drops: Arkansas Pen Show Edition! New TWSBI Bahama Yellow, Kaweco Lunar Sports, Yamamoto Paper, and More!

We’re attending the Arkansas Pen Show this weekend, so I wanted to get as many reminders out there as possible that the Nashville Shop is going to be closed on Friday but open on Saturday normal hours. (Thanks, Nick!) We do have plenty of the new TWSBI ECO Bahama Yellow fountain pens and the Kaweco Lunar Sport available for purchase in-store and online, in addition to restocks of favorite papers from Yamamoto and more TRAVELER’S Notebooks.

If you’re in the Little Rock area, be sure to check out the Arkansas Pen Show that runs Friday through Sunday. We hope to see you there!

1. Kaweco Lunar Sport Fountain Pens. The Iridescent Pearl Perkeos didn’t last very long, but we have the new Lunar Sport fountain pens available in both Light and Shadow Green.

2. TWSBI ECO Bahama Yellow Fountain Pens. The latest release from TWSBI is a mustard yellow - a shade that I think is vastly underrepresented in fountain pens.

3. Yamamoto Canopus A5 Notebooks. Canopus paper was designed to replace the now-discontinued Cosmo Air Light, with a similarly soft feel and vivid color with most fountain pen inks.

4. Yamamoto Ro-Biki Notebooks and Canvas Covers. The Yamamoto Ro-Biki system is lesser known, but a favorite notebook system of many. The Soliste paper used in the refills comes in a variety of different rulings such as graph, reticle, and reticle+grid.

5. Colorverse Colorvent "2025 “Top 3” Inks and Glistening Series. We’ve re-upped on Colorverse inks, with new releases and old favorites back in stock! Be sure to check these out especially if you’ve been looking for shimmer.

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New Arrivals: New Kaweco Sports and Perkeos, Silver Diplomat Vipers, and the Colorverse Colorvent 2025 "Top 3" Inks

New Diplomat Viper fountain pens have arrived! The latest release is Silver, featuring the same textured guilloché pattern that makes the Viper such a pleasant pen to use. The texture on the silver even gives the pen a blue cast in certain lights! The Viper fountain pen is available in a single fine/medium (FM) nib size, as well as a rollerball.

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And as of this morning, we also have the Colorverse Colorvent 2025 “Top 3” Ink Releases! Colorverse has chosen Follow the Water, Polar Night, and Erebus Crater, which are a bit more adventurous than 2024’s Pulsar Pulse, Milky Way, and Christmas Star. Finally, we’ve also received the Glistening series, including the stunning Mystic Mountain pictured below.

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UPDATE: New Kaweco Perkeos and Sports are In Stock!

Just arrived today: We have the new Kaweco Perkeo in Iridescent Pearl, as well as the Kaweco Sport in Pink with the Skyline trim, and the Lunar Light Green and Lunar Shadow Green, both of which are available for purchase and will ship starting tomorrow (3/18).

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Come see us in our Nashville Shop! Our store is open this week on Thursday from 1pm-6pm and Saturday from 12pm to 6pm), so please swing by and see these and more! Note that these are special hours due to attendance at the Arkansas Pen Show, so you can also come see us there!