This article is about a type of paper. For loose leaf tea packaging, see Tea § Loose_tea.
A loose leaf (also loose leaf paper, filler paper or refill paper) is a piece of paper of any kind that is not bound in place, or available on a continuous roll, and may be punched and organized as ring-bound (in a ring binder) or disc-bound. Loose leaf paper may be sold as free sheets, or made up into notepads, where perforations or glue allow them to be removed easily. "Leaf" in many languages refers to a sheet or page of paper, as in Folio, as in feuille de papier (French), hoja de papel (Spanish), foglio di carta (Italian), and ルーズリーフ (Japanese, /ruːzuriːfu/).
"Loose leaf" describes any kind of paper or book that is available in single sheets, unbound. Its "leaves", or sheets, are "loose" and not bound in notebook or book form. In North America, some textbooks are sold with prepunched holes and perforated pages, so that users can remove the pages and store them in a typical 3-ring binder. This helps in that the user is therefore able to carry only the part of book that is in use with them, without needing to carry the whole book.
Main paper sizes are the letter-size system mainly used in North America and the ISO system used in the rest of the world. US companies such as Staples and Office Depot manufacture and sell letter-size loose leaf products in their retail stores. When it comes to ISO-sized loose leaf systems, since Japanese companies (e.g. Kokuyo, Maruman, MUJI, King Jim) are major designers and manufacturers of ISO-size loose leaf systems, whose products are sold internationally, corresponding Japanese terms will be included in parentheses throughout this article.
A looseleaf (also looseleaf paper, filler paper or refill paper) is a piece of paper of any kind that is not bound in place, or available on a continuous...
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steamed, then pounded and shaped into cake form, while in the Song dynasty, loose-leaf tea was developed and became popular. During the Yuan and Ming dynasties...
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settings and in laboratory notebooks. Graph paper is available either as looseleaf paper or bound in notebooks. The Metropolitan Museum of Art owns a pattern...
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coffee, micro-ground instant coffee, espresso, caffe latte, full and loose-leaf teas, juices, Frappuccino beverages, pastries, and snacks. Some offerings...
decreed that tributes of tea to the court were to be changed from brick to loose-leaf form. The imperial decree quickly transformed the tea-drinking habits...
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as Norman Vincent Peale; elementary, secondary, and college textbooks; loose-leaf information services; and professional books. Prentice-Hall acquired the...
flavour per leaf than an unbroken leaf. The majority of tea is sold as boxes of tea bags, but all of the major brands are available in looseleaf form, allowing...
wallets. The organisers are traditionally leather bound and have a six-ring loose-leaf binder system. The design originated at Lefax, a United States company...
notebook systems, where loose leaves are bound together using plastic discs. For more information on looseleaf systems, see Looseleaf. ARC hole punch for...
lit. "leaf tea") and yeopcha (엽차; 葉茶; lit. "leaf tea") refer to looseleaf tea, often in contrast to tea in tea bags. As the words mean "leaf tea", they...
celebrations or just as an afternoon refreshment. Originally, in a tea party, looseleaf tea was provided in a teapot along with milk and sugar. A variety of food...
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