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

Growing up in Saudi Arabia, I learned cursive with a fountain pen in the third grade as part of the standard curriculum. I wasn’t good at school, and being left-handed but forced to write with my ...

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 ...

Fountain pens have been in use for a very long time, with the first patent registered all the way back in 1827. With the invention of word processors, writing has changed a lot since then but one ...

This is One Thing, a column with tips on how to live. Growing up in Saudi Arabia, I learned cursive with a fountain pen in the third grade as part of the standard curriculum. I wasn’t good at ...

Pens where orginally supplied to the UK from Canada until 1941 when some models where made in Newhaven. The factory closed in 2009. The Slimfold fountain pens (left) were sold in 4 colours {black ...