Schut is a very old company that has been making paper since 1618.
The watercolour paper they produce is called the Schut Terschelling. They use acid free white woodfree cellulose watercolour paper.
The blocks are available in near the usual watercolour paper sizes, plus-minus half to quarter inch. The one I have is 9.5 by 11.75 inch. More common sizes from other brands are 9 by 12 inches.

All the sheets are gummed down at the edges so there won't be much wrapping when water is applied.

It doesn't say it's cold press so I guess it's considered rough. It's so rough I won't recommend using pen on it because you won't be able to get a straight line without the nip slipping into the tiny paper grooves. So this is strictly for watercolour, not for mixed media. If you're using a felt tip pen, I'm sure the tip will be worn with just a few drawings.

I'm not really accustomed to using heavily textured paper as I like drawing inked lines first.
The quality of the paper is very high. It's really durable. Even when wet, you can brush over it multiple times without the paper fiber appearing. Just for comparison, the Daler Rowney Aquafine blocks takes less than a handful of swipes across the wet surface and paper starts coming out.




















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Parka, they have hot pressed
Submitted by Kay on
Parka, they have hot pressed version, which is very smooth. You might like that. Btw, is this cold pressed or rough?
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