Once again I have been on the search for more interesting analog systems. This time thanks to Instagram I stumbled upon Lousie Carmen. In this post, I will give you some background information and overall how I feel about it.
Louise Carmen is a boutique shop in Paris that makes beautiful and refillable leather notebooks. Louise Carmen was created in 2016 by Fabien and Nathalie Valmary. I personally love the passion they have to bring leather notebooks to France. We see leather notebooks like the Traveler's Notebook in Japan and even Roterfaden from Germany so I hope the overall joy of leather notebooks can be available to as many people as possible. Thankfully they have this lovely website which I was able to order from!
They have much different leather notebook sizes with their own features and added accessories you can pick as you browse their online store. Thankfully the website has French and English options so if you are like me you can also navigate and select the designs you prefer.
I picked the Roadbook Heritage because I like the trifold opening and that I can fit three notebooks. I got it in the color vert London with a brown cord, three white 120g notebooks, a noel theme travel pouch, and engraving in a neutral color. The shipping was very fast with UPS and cost 40.11 euros. In total everything was 187.11 euros.
It was packaged very well and was wrapped like a gift in black tissue paper with a golden sticker with Louise Carmen on it. When I took the paper off the travel pouch with notebook system inside greeted me. The pouch is very lovely and likes how the brand is sewed on. The notebook itself is beautiful as the vert London is a nice dark green and love how smooth it feels. The engraving looks amazing on the cover bottom right corner and I am very happy with it. After having it for a little while I also appreciate the bit of metal hardware which prevent the cords from rubbing against the leather.
Overall I love this system and hope to use it for a personal comic project. The notebook can also fit Traveler's Notebook inserts so for now my setup is two Traveler Company watercolor regular inserts and one Louise Carman dot notebook. I recommend this to people who want a light multiple notebook system but need wider notebooks. These have plenty of space to draw and write plus the experience of shopping from them is wonderful.
Hope you all enjoyed this, until next time, stay hyped!
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