Today the world has gone on to become a warehouse of the most stylish pens and other means of writing ant the picture of the fountain pen is slowly going on to take a vintage aspect. People are slowly learning to forget that the child has to be taught the proper manner of using his or her first pen as the child is already well versed in the genre due to the host of pens that are strewn about the house. There are few takers for the leaky, fountain pen, which is still the power behind the neat handwriting that some people are complimented for. There is no time for filling the barrel of a pen with the ink from a bottle that has to be taken care of for the period of time that it has no use in the schedule of the modern man. Al said and done people are still very fond of the parker whenever there is the question of a pen as a gift and people have little value for the fountain except as a means of social recognition. This should not be happening and the more people fling from the use of ultra modern conveniences that go against the general ways of the happy world the better it is. Read more…

The Fountain Pen Ink

You would surely have used an ink pen at some point of time or the other. The basic mechanism is that of a design quiet similar to that of a quill. The basic problem in the quill or later forms of the wood pen were based in the fact that al of these were rather incapable of holding much ink for a long duration of time. The topic in question at the present moment is the ink that is used in a fountain pen. Did you know that the fountain pen was named so mainly on account of the fact that the pen spouted as fountain that spouted ink at the drop of a hat. The ink in the earliest stages of civilization was a resin like stuff made out of naturally available products. Red color was made out of marigolds and green out of leaf sap and blue from poppy boil. The form of the ink then was used mainly in the direction of painting cave pictures. Read more…

The Fountain Pen History

Every product in the world at the present moment is a product of much pondering and hard work. A lot has to be done in order that the product in its later stages is a fine thing that owes much to its predecessors and is a greatly advanced item by the time the world comes to know of it in its best forms. The story is quiet the same in case of Fountain Pens and people think that the product made its appearance out of the blue and the truth is something that is starkly different. The very first modulation of a pen or a ink writer was in the form of wood needles that were extremely functional and were used from the time of the ancient cave man for the express purpose of making the paintings in his surroundings that have survived the test of time and are still present in several interior caves and jungle walls. Read more…