Moleskine is the artist notebook that has been used by artists and thinkers around the globe for hundreds of years. Artists from Van Gogh to Picasso and writers from Ernest Hemingway to Bruce Chatwin have used Moleskine notebooks as sketchbooks and journals to capture their thoughts and ideas.

Today, you can use high quality Moleskine notebooks as a daily planner or calendar, to hold sketches, or jot down notes, stories and ideas before you turn them into works of art.  You can also find Moleskine city notebooks that are great for organizing and recording your travels.  The city notebook is also handy for those of you who live there to organize your information about the city.   

Moleskine books were originally produced in France by bookbinders who supplied the stationery shops frequented by fine artists. By the end of the twentieth century the Moleskine notebook was no longer available. In 1986, the last manufacturer of Moleskine, a family operation in Tours, closed its doors forever.

In 1998, a Italian publisher brought the Moleskine book back again. The legendary black artists notebook is once again being used as a sketch book, diary, travel journal and more.

Moleskine notebooks feature a variety of sizes, from pocket to extra large, as well as different papers aimed at specific uses:

• ruled notebooks
• plain paper notebooks
• squared paper notebooks (also known as grid or graph paper)
• watercolor paper notebooks
• Japanese Accordian paper notebook

Utrecht is the place to buy Moleskine notebooks because we offer a wide assortment in the following Moleskine lines:

• Moleskine Sketchbooks
• Moleskine City Notebooks / Guides
• Moleskine Notebook 
• Moleskine Folio Collection
• Moleskine Cahier Journals / Notebooks