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Thin Japanese sheets, local mills, marbling, and the unglamorous tests that tell you whether a page will feather in Brisbane humidity.
Paper · 11 February 2025
The mills receded, the imported pads arrived, and a local sheet became something you hunt for. A reader's map of paper that is still made, finished or meaningfully finished here.
Paper · 22 January 2025
The phrase is a marketing kindness until you test for feather, bleed, show-through and dry time. A shop-floor definition, written for Australian pads and Australian humidity.
Paper · 17 July 2014
In 2014 we were awaiting the arrival of Tomoe River. The wait was about a sheet so thin it felt like arrogance until you wrote on it. Here is how to live with that arrogance in Australia.
