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PEN WORLD
Show Your Summer Style
The newest Visconti Homo Sapiens, Iris Garden, is a tribute to the beautiful irises that bloom each spring in Florence, Italy's Iris Garden.
10+ min |
June 2024
PEN WORLD
Good Made Better Keeps Getting Better
SUZANNE C. LEE tests Dan Keller's wood and metal reading and writing accessories and finds her childhood dream desk come to fruition.
6 min |
June 2024
PEN WORLD
Layers of Talent: River City Pen Company
With his skills in design and eye for details, Rich Paul crafts pens that are as beautiful as they are functional.
6 min |
June 2024
PEN WORLD
Fathoming the Unfathomable
The new Kanilea Pen Co. Blue Moana fountain pen and Mau Loa cap band are inspired by the ocean's depths and universal interconnectivity.
8 min |
June 2024
PEN WORLD
Truphae: Flexibility Is Key
This young pen shop is writing a new chapter in retail pen sales by finding unique ways to foster community.
6 min |
June 2024
PEN WORLD
"Winter Counts:" Transforming Non-fiction into Fiction
Creative writing typically blends what we know and experience with what we invent and imagine.
2 min |
June 2024
PEN WORLD
Swivodex, Sailors, and the Plastic Revolution: An Overview of Dip-less Desk Sets, Part V
The end of World War II ushered in a new era, with plastics technology opening the way to better and less costly products of all sorts.
6 min |
June 2024
PEN WORLD
The Mystery of the Purloined Parkers
What do G-men, mobsters, and tampons have in common? The two most epic fountain pen heists in history.
5 min |
June 2024
PEN WORLD
The Other Articles of Impeachment
\"Hear ye! Hear ye! Hear ye! All persons are commanded to keep silent, on pain of imprisonment...\"
5 min |
June 2024
PEN WORLD
The Road to Recovery
A recent trip to Wajima, Japan, by TACCIA's Shu-Jen Lin shows tragedy in the present but hope for the future.
3 min |
June 2024
PEN WORLD
Stationery Fest 2024 Introduces a New Pen Show Concept
Starting a new pen show is always a risky venture, but starting one in New York City, New York, is even riskier, especially when the pen show in question is not designed to be a pen show, per se—at least, not in the format we are used to.
3 min |
June 2024
PEN WORLD
25 Years of the Levenger True Writer
The new Anniversary Origins collection celebrates the True Writer's silver anniversary, but its origins are over a century old.
6 min |
April 2024
PEN WORLD
LAMY and uni Unite
The Japanese company behind the Uniball brand and Germany's LAMY are now partners.
2 min |
April 2024
PEN WORLD
Wajima Earthquake: Lest We Forget
The New Year's Day earthquake took lives and livelihoods. The future of Wajima lacquerware is at stake.
4 min |
April 2024
PEN WORLD
Fontoplumo: Filling a Need
Frank van Krieken turned a hobby into a pen store, and he is spreading the gospel across the globe.
5 min |
April 2024
PEN WORLD
Styling and Substance: Sheaffer and Sengbusch, and One or Two Others: An Overview of Dip-less Desk Sets, Part IV
In the second installment of this series, we saw the R. Esterbrook Steel Pen Company get its start in the dip-less business.
6 min |
April 2024
PEN WORLD
The Power of the Pen
A Veterans Administration program in Arkansas turns former warriors into pen makers.
6 min |
April 2024
PEN WORLD
The White Dot Marks the Spot
Production by William Penn, distribution by Kenro: Sheaffer is back to basics.
6 min |
April 2024
PEN WORLD
Manu's Pen Nebula
The Pen Family represents Emmanuel Caltagirone's personal journey. Let's take a short trip through time and space.
8 min |
April 2024
PEN WORLD
Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way: An Overview of Dip-less Desk Sets, Part III
Once dip-less desk sets became entrenched in the business world, they naturally proliferated as more companies got into the game.
6 min |
February 2024
PEN WORLD
The Inkwell and the Imagination
A history of the inkwell as a source of inspiration.
6 min |
February 2024
PEN WORLD
From EDC to OMG!
The Visconti Year of the Dragon limited edition collection pays tribute to the Chinese five-clawed dragon, which was reserved solely as representative of the Emperor and nobility.
7 min |
February 2024
PEN WORLD
Love Story
AP Limited Editions celebrates its 10th anniversary with pens in honor of its deep U.S. connection. Originally published in Vol. 29, No. 2 (February 2016).
5 min |
February 2024
PEN WORLD
The Magic Kingdom at Orlando's Sam Flax
In central Florida, a writing instruments and art supplies store carries on the Flax pen shop legacy.
5 min |
February 2024
PEN WORLD
Piloting My Way To Dromgoole's
Rice Village in Houston, Texas, is always buzzing with holiday shoppers in the weeks leading up to Christmas, so it was no surprise to me that not a single parking spot was available in front of family-owned Dromgoole's Fine Writing Instruments and Stationery store for its holiday shopping event on December 9, 2023.
1 min |
February 2024
PEN WORLD
The Ohio Pen Show
Begun more than 25 years ago, the Columbus, Ohio, Pen Show is one of the most respected among all North American pen shows.
1 min |
February 2024
PEN WORLD
These Snakes Don't Bite
The new BENU Viper Collection finds inspiration in the sinuous bodies of three snakes.
5 min |
February 2024
PEN WORLD
A Fountain Pen Scribe's Ode to a Typewriter
I stood there, just 15, clutching a $30 check from a magazine for something I'd written, the first ever for my writing, growing dizzy with images in my head of where I needed to be.
5 min |
February 2024
PEN WORLD
Introducing LeatherLuxePH
Raymund Nino Bumatay creates high-end leather pen cases with Filipino pride.
4 min |
February 2024
PEN WORLD
Crafting the Divine
What's in a name? Paradise, when the name is Divine Pens Plus.
5 min |