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 ...

Beth Grossman is in the process of transcribing the entire US Constitution on old US Mint money bags with quill feather pens. The pens are the same tool used by scribes of the original document in ...