This came via door to door express today. My first Moleskine. I’ve been dying to have one of these and it’s a good thing it’s now available in the Philippines through this website.

Moleskine \mol-a-skeen-a\ is the heir of the legendary notebook used for the past two centuries by great artists and thinkers, including Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, André Breton, Ernest Hemingway and Bruce Chatwin.

The little black Moleskine notebook, with its rounded corners, elastic closure and expandable inner pocket, was originally produced by small French bookbinders and were then supplied to Parisian stationery shops frequented by the international literary and artistic set. It was actually a nameless object.

In the mid-1980s, however, the original manufacturer closed down - the notebook was no longer available. One of its patrons, Bruce Chatwin, stocked up on his favorite notebook and bought up all stocks that he could find. In his book, Songlines, Bruce Chatwin tells the whole story of his favorite notebook, which he nicknamed ‘Moleskine.’ This is where the notebook probably got its name.

Moving on to 1998, a small talian publisher, brought the notebook back again, taking the name Moleskine from Chatwin’s book. Since then, the Moleskine has traveled the world and has enjoyed extraordinary popularity. With its various page styles, ruled, graph or plain paper, the adventure and tradition will continue to be passed on from one hand to the next.

Here are samples of the many things you can do with your Moleskine:

Hollis Brown Thornton

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Irina Troitskaya

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