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Moleskine Notebooks

Moleskine is a brand celebrated for producing notebooks, diaries, journals, and albums. Shop online for Moleskine diaries at WHSmith and choose from a wide range of high quality traditional black or coloured rectangle notebooks that are bound by an elastic band and feature a handy pocket inside the back cover for your notes & clippings where ever you go.


A Brief History of Moleskine

Moleskine is the legendary notebook of European artists and intellectuals who helped mould twentieth-century culture. These intellectuals who made Moleskines famous range from Henri Matisse to the turn-of-the-century Parisian avant-garde and from Louis Férdinand Céline to Ernest Hemingway. Writer-traveler Bruce Chatwin also picked up this tradition and made it famous.

Moleskine notebooks are simple black rectangles with squared, lined or plain pages held closed by an elastic band. There is an inside pocket for loose sheets, a binding in 'moleskine' which gives it its name. These trusty, pocket sized traveling companions guarded notes, stories, thoughts and impressions of many people through the years before they became famous on the pages of beloved books.

Chatwin used to buy his moleskine at a Paris stationery shop in Rue de l’Ancienne Comédie. He always stocked up on them before going off on one of his journeys. He had a ritual set up over the years, before using them, he numbered the pages, wrote his name and at least two addresses with the promise of a reward in case they got lost.  He once said "Losing my passport was the least of my worries, losing a notebook was a catastrophe".



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