Month: September 2017

Black & White

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We went mono for our September 2017 stationery box. I’ve been wanting to include Leuchtturm1917 products in our boxes for some time and this was the perfect opportunity. As with all their books, the paper is extremely good quality and plays nicely with fountain pens. An extra pen loop is always useful and if our subscribers…

Stationary stationery

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For many, the noun ‘stationery’ is one of those tricky spelling-bee words, that trips people up when confused with the adjective ‘stationary’. But where does the word stationery come from? While writing on paper has been around since Ancient Egypt, the term ‘stationery’ can be be traced back to medieval England, when in the 13-14th…