I’ve been trying out the Pilot MR1 Silver Ballpoint Pen (Figure 1) – it’s very similar to my fountain MR3 pen (see Figure 2). Both MR1 and MR3 pens are part of Pilot’s Metropolitan range – these are quality stylish everyday executive pens. MR1 pens come in elegant silver, black and gold barrel colours, with…

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…