Takeo Dressco Onionskin Notebook – KateJo 300-Page
The Takeo Dressco Onionskin Notebook is built around a paper most people thought had disappeared. When the last Japanese onion-skin paper was discontinued in 2010, Takeo worked with a specialist mill to revive it as "KateJo" — a very thin, faintly translucent sheet with a delicate crumpled texture. The result is 300 pages of something genuinely unusual: light as air, yet a pleasure to write on.
Onion-skin paper was once the writer's choice for airmail, prized for its lightness. Here it's paired with a slim coloured cover and a special binding that lets all 300 pages fall open flat. Fountain pens and pencils sit beautifully on its surface, and the faint translucency lets your words cast a soft shadow onto the sheet beneath — part of the character of writing on paper like this.
Why You'll Love It
- It holds a whole project: You get 300 wafer-thin pages in a notebook barely thicker than usual, so a long journal or manuscript lives in a single volume.
- It opens flat, every page: You write from the first page to the last without the binding fighting back, thanks to the flexible spine.
- It rewards a fountain pen: You lay down a wet line and the KateJo surface takes it cleanly, giving an airmail-thin, old-world feel modern paper rarely offers.
Details
- Brand: Takeo
- Product Line: Dressco
- Type: Onionskin Notebook
- Paper: KateJo onion-skin (thin, translucent)
- Pages: 300
- Size: 108 × 152 × 9 mm
- Binding: Lay-flat glue binding
- Country of Origin: Japan