Herbin10 White Blotter Sheets - 4 3/4 x 6 1/3

* My fountain pen is included in the photo here to show the size of the sheets.I've been using fountain pens daily for many years now and I've never used blotting paper before. I didn't think I needed them, as the papers I had been using weren't really fountain pen-friendly and they weren't the nice new slick Japanese and European types that help the ink to glide over the paper.Since discovering these new papers and notebooks made exclusively for fountain pens - those having a slicker feel to them to discourage feathering and bleed-through, I now feel the need to use a type of blotting paper.My inks, especially my shimmers and my sheens, can stay quite wet on the paper for quite a bit, and when I close my notepad after letting them fully dry (or so I thought!) I find that when I open the notepad the next day, I have these ugly ink smears on the previous page.Blotting paper is a great product from the past! These nice pepto-bismal pink sheets are heavy and thick and they will last a long time. They are sturdy and just the perfect size for slipping into my 175 Mnemosyne notepads, and they do not hang over the edge of the paper. I like the pink color, as they even function as a fast bookmark to let me know where I left off writing. When you have to close your notepad up real fast, just slip one of them in on top of your writing and no mess the next time you open it up again!Really glad I ordered them and they will become an everyday permanent feature on my desktop. They are made in France and have a cute little antique inkwell and feather printed on the front of each sheet. A very worthwhile order!

All paper is not the same in terms of absorbency, and my love of fountain pens often is thwarted by cheap paper allowing smudging, plus my being left-handed. I feel like an idiot for never considering the use of blotting paper, until watching a period drama last week I saw a character blot the note she'd just written -- bingo! This blotting paper came overnight and works exactly as expected -- each of the ten sheets is thin but sturdy and can be reused over and over again. Love it! If you use fountain pens, this stuff will keep your correspondence neat and un-smudged and your hands ink-free.

These are perfect blotters to cut up and store in various notebooks. I have one stored in every Rhodia folder flap. They are also good to use as full page bookmarks.

This paper is great for blotting. I do a lot of Calligraphy on the greeting cards I make, Plus I write with a fountain pen all the time. I had previously bout the smaller version of this blotting paper.

Blots ink effectively. Expensive. Kind of bigger than expected, had to trim to fit on my roller.

This blotting paper is absolutely fantastic. Great size, texture, and does exactly as advertised.

I write with a De'Atrementis archival fountain pen in my Sterling Ink b6 journal, which is made with Tomoe River paper. I keep a few of these blotter sheets dispersed throughout the journal. I often jump from one page to another and toss one of these in before I move on to the next page and never have a problem with smudging. The paper size is just slightly larger than the B6 journal pages, so I know the whole page has been covered. It does not stick out far enough to be a problem... maybe 1/16-1/8" on each side. I use a hobonichi-style cover and the blotting sheet does not interfere at all with the cover operation.

I finally ran out of blotting paper and have been making do by using scrap paper and envelopes. On Tomroe River and Clairefontaine paper, where the ink sits on top for a bit, this can lead to the smearing I'm trying to avoid. I'm too impatient to wait for ink to dry and I'm not giving up on wet writers so I'm glad to have real blotting paper back. I keep a sheet, cut to size, in my notebooks. This many sheets should last awhile. I prefer the pink and I love the way it looks and feels as it comes to the end of its usefulness.