The key to creating your own fountain pen ink lies in choosing the right pigments. Water-soluble dyes are ideal because they ...

Conventional dip pens typically had to be reloaded with ink by the end of each sentence. The fountain pen was invented in 1880 by an insurance salesman named Louis Edson Waterman. Before the ...

Today's niche drama is brought to you by the fountain pen community. Fans of the German pen maker Lamy's Dark Lilac ink are losing their heads because a new version of the product is slightly ...

It’s a debate as old as time and has had the world’s finest intellectuals at war for years – what is better to write with, fountain pens or ballpoint pens? Okay, maybe it’s not that ...

Method: I always like going with the obvious choice first, so dish soap and water it was. I dampened the stained area with water, then I put a squirt of dish soap on a damp cloth. I rubbed the soap in ...

It’s probably hard to imagine writing with a feather and a bottle of ink, but that’s what writing was limited to for hundreds of years. When fountain pens first came along, they were ...

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The fountain pen features a stainless-steel nib and the piston-driven ink filling method originated in the 1930s. The German company worked with designers such as Wilhelm Wagenfeld on its pens and ...

It’s a debate as old as time and has had the world’s finest intellectuals at war for years – what is better to write with, fountain pens or ballpoint pens? Okay, maybe it’s not that ...