Even so, set aside any damaged or less-than-ideal feathers to practice on. After shredding a few of these into smaller pieces, you’ll be ready to make your first quill pen.

Feathers of the crow and raven were used ... ink supply so he would never lose a deal in this way again. The first fountain pens were hollow bodied and were filled by using an eyedropper.

It’s probably hard to imagine writing with a feather and a bottle of ink, but that’s what writing was limited to for hundreds of years. When fountain pens first came along, they were ...

Quill pens were replaced with the invention of ... are fixed in the wing – the expert calligrapher would use the first feather. Quills were cured to harden them for use. This involved exposing ...

Fisher's original astronaut space pen, the AG7 model that first lifted off to space on ... and gives it a stealthy appearance. Blue Origin's feather and celestial icons are laser engraved around ...