These are my three favorite Melbourne stationery stores, the ones I go back to whenever my journal is running out of pages (or when it is not, let’s be real).
I write by hand. My journals travel with me, my blog drafts start on paper, and I have opinions about paper weight. So when people ask me where to shop for stationery in Melbourne, these three are always my answer.
The Best Melbourne Stationery Stores
1. Zetta Florence, Fitzroy
Zetta Florence has been on Brunswick Street for so long it feels like part of the street itself. The family business has supplied Melbourne with craft and stationery supplies since the 1980s, starting on Gertrude Street before moving into its blue-and-white corner home on Brunswick Street in the early 1990s. Come here for journals, wax seals, stickers, cards and wrapping paper with Australian designs. Their illustrated Australia calendar is iconic, and it makes a very good gift for anyone who misses home.
Find it at 197B Brunswick Street, Fitzroy.
2. Kami, Fitzroy
In Japanese, kami can mean paper, and it can also mean a divine being. For a paper shop, that is the perfect name. Open since 1989, Kami is a treasure trove of decorative and handmade papers sourced from places like Nepal and Japan, along with origami paper, journals and cloth-bound albums lined up on the walls by colour. It is the place I go when I want paper that feels special before I have even written on it.
Find it at 217 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, just a few doors up from Zetta Florence, so you can easily do both in one trip.
3. Bookbinders Design, Melbourne CBD
Bookbinders Design is the city option among my Melbourne stationery stores, tucked inside The Galleria on Little Collins Street. The owner comes from a family that ran a bookbinding business for three generations, and you can feel that love of paper in every notebook. They specialise in handcrafted Swedish stationery, so think clean lines, sturdy notebooks, photo albums, diaries and boxes in beautiful colours. It is my go-to for a minimalist notebook that will survive a year in my bag.
Find it at Shop E11, The Galleria, 348 Little Collins Street, Melbourne.
Three shops, two suburbs, one very happy paper nerd. If you only have one afternoon, start on Brunswick Street with Zetta Florence and Kami, then grab a coffee and treat yourself to a new journal. If you are in the CBD, Bookbinders Design is your quick fix. Whichever you choose, these Melbourne stationery stores prove paper isn’t dead. It just mostly lives in Fitzroy now.
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