Bruce Chatwin and his notebooks. Interview to the wife Elizabeth

[djkinney]

Moleskine is made in China now and the quality is erratic at best. It is completely inferior to its old self and THAT was inferior to real French books. The new paper is typical Chinese shit.

[moleskineart]

@djkinney Here you have further information about our paper quality

moleskine (dot) com/catalogue/moleskine_qualit­y.php

[djkinney]

@moleskineart First, that website just redirects to the homepage. Second, you cannot provide as evidence your own website. That's like saying "Proof that I have super powers is that I say I have super powers." Second, it doesn't matter what you say. The problem--as with so many products--is that the Chinese supply chain cannot be trusted. It is simply inferior. If you want quality AND respect, take a hit in the profit pants and source the materials from the EU.

[Rise0rdie]

i love moleskines and all but she is really annoying.

[lilycat14]

You are being lied to. Chatwin never used a Moleskine notebook in his life. Neither did Picasso or Hemmingway. The company that makes them is Italian and was only founded in 1996. Modo & Modo was founded in 1996 and Chatwin died in 1989. Modo & Modo copied the design of a black notebook that was made in Tours in France in the 1st half of the 19th Century. Wake up to reality, Moleskine is a sham!

[stalkek]

@lilycat14 I like the notebooks, they're very nice quality. I couldn't really care less about their history, though you're right about giving the correct version of why the modern Moleskines exist. As the products themselves though, they are not 'a sham'. I for one only use them cos they're my favourite notebooks.

[Jah044445]

@lilycat14 They aren't saying that they used Moleskines specifically. They're just explaining the use of a small/plain/elegant notebook in general. Then this company started that specialized in these types of notebooks that you could get in all different forms for different uses, and they gave it a name.

[nocturneJOJO]

@lilycat14 what you said is only partially true; it is true that Chatwin, Picasso and Hemingway never used this Moleskine, but they di used the original French one until the factory closed. In recent years the brand was bought by Italian who started the production again and make them famous and fashionable as they are now. You said that they lied to us, but you are wrong here since in every single moleskine notebook there's a sheet with all this history written, so there's no lie nor fraud.

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