u/InkStainedLeather

Thank you for the replies to my earlier post asking about pens and paper. There is quite a lot for me to look into and I am looking forward to this!

I was talking with a parent of one of my students after school yesterday. I told him about my interest in Indian papers (etc.) and he enthusiastically offered to help me. He regularly travels back and forth for business, and has family and friends in India, so this looks like it will be relatively easy for me to pull off!

My new question is about where to purchase? I'm not sure where in India his connections are, so are there any recommended Indian-based online retailers for this aside from Amazon.in? Thank you again!

Hello r/desipens! I am a long time fountain pen user that stumbled upon this sub by accident. After lurking for a bit I thought I'd introduce myself and see if you could possibly help me out a bit.

I've been doing a deep dive into the world of paper. I am trying to source both "good for the price" paper and also "great papers" (regardless of the cost). I've sourced numerous papers from Japan and North America, as well as a few from France, China, and Italy among other places... But nothing from India.

I confess to not having done much research on this, which is why I'm here. Can you please give me a few paper recommendations, and help me source them? I am a high school teacher with several Indian students. I should be able to find a "paper mule" to help me get the paper here from India.

Paper is my main interest right now, but if there was one must-have Indian pen at a reasonable price point (say under 75 USD or so, and maybe a couple of inks) I'd be happy to hear about them too! Thanks!

On Monday I will be leading a Wellness Day session on "Into to Journaling" for teachers. The session is 90 minutes long. For the first half of it I will be helping participants make themselves a simple hand-made journal. I'd like to start the second half with a short (10 minutes or less) video on journaling itself - something to help break the ice and give ideas on how to start journaling.

I will then be giving each teacher an inexpensive fountain pen to keep (along with the journal that they just made) and giving them the remaining time (20-30 minutes) to start their new journals. I'd love to hear if anybody has a video or two that they found inspirational / helpful when they were new to journaling. Thanks for any and all suggestions!

I am doing a mod-approved Giveaway consisting of over 80 different paper samples, as well as a notebook of page layout samples over in r/fountainpens that is relevant to people over here too (even if you are not a fountain pen user). I'll be doing a draw from commenters, so if you are interested, simply pop over there to enter. All details are given in my post linked here.

Of course there's a sub for Callligraphy! OK I will definitely start lurking here, but I literally just had it pointed out earlier today about this sub. I sincerely hope this post does not violate any rules - I did look them over and am not seeing anything obvious, but if I am wrong - my apologies in advance!

I am doing a mod approved giveaway over in the fountainpens sub that is (I think) also relevant to people over here (even if you are not a fountain pen user). I'll be doing a draw from commenters, so if you are interested, simply pop over there to enter. All details are given in my post linked here.

By the way - now that I know about this sub, I will be looking through it to find what page layouts might be most useful and add to my set!

I am doing a giveaway over in the fountainpens sub that is very relevant to people over here (even if you are not a fountain pen user). I'll be doing a draw from commenters, so if you are interested, simply pop over there to enter. All details are given in my post linked here.

I am doing a giveaway over in the fountainpens sub that is very relevant to people over here (even if you are not a fountain pen user). I'll be doing a draw from commenters, so if you are interested, simply pop over there to enter. All details are given in my post linked here.