Foglietto Cards Are Back

 

 

Something new, something old. Returning to our shop: Foglietto cards. We have been waiting for these for a long time!

 

These are packs of vertical index cards, in A6 or A7, with different rulings including dot, grid, blank, tables for lists, as well as more creative rulings.

 

 

The uses are endless (and you know it’s serious when I’m breaking out the bullet points):

• to do lists
• grocery lists
• various other lists
• recipes
• fountain pens inked up
• memorization aid
• Pictionary
• presentation notes
• habit tracking
• verb conjugations
• project planning
• group brainstorming
• math homework
• fitness exercises
• writing exercises
• friendly notes
• gift tags
• bookmarks
• organizing box/bin contents
• step-by-step instructions for children in charge of making their own smoothies
• meeting notes

 

They also made such great gifts for students, anyone with a job, anyone without a job, stationery nerds, office workers. A pack of these plus a Mystery Pen Surprise—what a duo!

 

 

A pack of these is satisfyingly hefty, but also a lot of fun, a bit of inspiration. The kids use these all the time for their world-making and creativity, putting stamps on them, making tickets or IDs or currency or magic cards, and I love seeing how they organize their own little stacks of them.

 

 

And also excellent: these cards are pretty decent with fountain pens and fountain pen ink, which is not always a given with office paper or index cards. Below are a few writing samples with pens I had on hand. The hue of the ink will show differently depending on the colour of the paper underneath, but these writing samples hopefully give you a sense of how the paper handles ink in terms of feathering and clarity.

 

 

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I’m so glad to have these back! What delight to swim again in these stacks of multi-coloured papers.

 

Once upon a time they were one of my favourite things we carried in the shop, because they were so universally useful. Fountain pens, washi tape, bottles of ink, specialized page-a-day agendas, leather notebook covers, etc. Are all well and good but are all part of the mathematically impossible Venn diagram multiverse, wherein stationery nerds sit in their various circles. They were one of my best recommendations for people looking for gifts, especially for those hard-to-buy-for friends and family. Super high quality, definitely unexpected, and surprisingly useful.

 

And then Foglietto stopped producing the cards—they ran into some hard times through Covid, and production costs were high, and they just couldn’t keep it going anymore. And now—the future is murky, as always—they’ve passed the torch to us, and we’ve got dozens of boxes of Foglietto in our warehouse, and we’re hoping for the best. What does this mean?? This seems incredibly vague, Liz! We’re hoping to get printing back up and running.

 

In the meantime, we’re digging through some of these dozens of boxes.