Okay I know weird question but i just finished wroting something short and important to me and i’d like it to feel good when you read it. Like, in a tactile way as well as an emotional way.
i used to use hammermill something something I forget, my soccer coach would order it (she was also the office manager at the firm but like, she coached my soccer team when i was 8 i still called her Coach) whenever we ran out. Today i opened the bag? sack? whatever of emergency hammermill in my closet and it only felt marginally better than the crazy vaclav’s paper of discounts we been getting. I think i bought the wrong emergency fancy paper, or someone played a prank on me.
100% cotton laid paper, preferably with a full deckle edge. The “laid” part is important, the wire mesh from the mould leaves a texture (like a watermark) you don’t get with modern “wove” paper.
There’s also quite a lot of handmade rag paper out there, most of which is nice. Just be careful of the ones with embedded flowers and stuff if you’re using a laser printer, they can come out and stick to the rollers. (Also much of this is terrible to write on with a fountain pen, as it’s not sized to stop the ink bleeding.)