I used to use Prym's tracing paper rolls which worked well enough and were softer than the Burda paper and more translucent but did tear fairly easily. I'd previously used draftman's tracing film but what I had was pretty thick, sometimes folding left white lines, it was quite bulky to fold into envelopes and it had sharp edges and points when folded too -
Then after reading the TSF post I tried out a 10m roll of the traditional
spot and cross paper from William Gee and liked that a lot as I'm starting to do more drafting now and it has a bit more substance to it so it erases pretty well and, while not being
very see-through and despite not having the best eyesight these days, I can trace patterns with the assistance of a decent light. I don't use the markings a lot but I find them useful for extra grain matching opportunities when the single line doesn't fall in a nice place on the fabric and when I'm drafting it's a handy extra check that my lines are parallel or at right angles. They have the same paper unmarked too.
So when my 10m roll ran out I went for a 136m roll of the 122mm width (great for all those big circular ballroom skirts) and it works out at less than 30p a metre! There's also 90cm & 152cm widths and 150cm rolls if you're wallpapering with it! >