Learn how to make quill ink from beets and a quill pen from a single feather in this comprehensive tutorial. Quill pens have been used as writing implements for centuries, the number of which isn ...

A.J. Jacobs has been writing with an old-fashioned quill for a year. He argues they allow for slower, more contemplative thinking. Writer A.J. Jacobs wrote his manuscript using a quill and ink ...

I’m writing this article with a pen. And not just a regular pen. A quill pen. It's a goose feather I've carved with a straight razor into a sharp point and dipped in ink. I’m doing this ...

But remarkably, one of the tools he’s used to discuss today’s most complex ideas is one of the world’s most ancient writing instruments: quill and ink. You probably haven’t used a ...

It was the goose quill that dominated the writing ... and the only way to correct a writing mistake was to scratch the ink off the paper with a small spade-shaped knife known as an erasing knife.

This amazing tool allows ink to be stored and dispensed from the shaft of the pen. Writing with quill and ink was messy and troublesome. The quill tip had to be dipped into an inkwell to load the ...