From the Dark Ages to the middle of the 19th century, the quill pen was used to record every work of religion, philosophy, science, medicine and law. The best quills for writing were taken from ...

but that’s what writing was limited to for hundreds of years. When fountain pens first came along, they were revolutionary, albeit expensive and leaky. In 1900, the world literacy rate stood ...

Mindful writing rests the brain, potentially sparking creativity, according to neuroscientist Dr. Claudia Aguirre. Sounds good, right? So why not find a good pen and some paper and get started?

Even after the spread of the printing press in Europe transformed how books were produced, people still used ink and quill pens to write out the letters, financial records, legal contracts ...

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 ...

And yet, when the Bungu Joshi Haku writing material fair was held in Osaka’s Umeda district in March, the booth of a Paraglass glass pen maker was quickly swamped with visitors seeking items ...