Introduction I have been trying out a few of our pens lately and thought I would do some brief notes about them. These are currently all in stock on our website and the price estimates I’ve noted in the photos are from 05/09/22. Click on the images for a bigger, clearer view of the writing…

While working on getting new products live on the site last year (or was it the year before?!), I was delighted to discover we are now supplying mouse pads from Fellowes that are made out of 95% recycled tires! How cool! They are gorgeous and would brighten up any desk space, featuring the ocean, a…

When I was at primary school (we don’t need to say how long ago this was), I remember obtaining a calligraphy pack from the Book Club. For a while, I thought all that fancy lettering was pretty cool. Then I grew up and forgot about it. Much to my surprise, many years later, I found…

Clairefontaine make a range of tracing papers in both roll and sheet format, in a variety of thicknesses. In stock as of today (07/09/2022): A1, A2, A3 sheets 140 or 230 gsm Rolls 375 mm wide and 20 metres long, in 40gsm, 90 gsm and 110 gsm thicknesses According to Clairefontaine, these papers are for…

We were lucky enough to receive engraved Flexbook notebooks from one of our suppliers for Christmas last year. I’ve been using mine as a music practice log/journal and really liking it (Figure 1). Since we have a number of Flexbooks for sale in our webshop, and they’re a little unusual and also a bit more…

Last week, I tested out some of our ink range with paintbrush, fountain pen and calligraphy nibs. The inks I tried out, shown in Figure 1, were: Herbin Writing Ink 10 ml bottle, of colour Bleu Calanque (also called Cove Blue; our product code C11514T) also available in 30 ml bottles and many colours Pilot…