Wednesday 30 January 2013

Arwey Notebooks

Some more new notebooks for you today!

This lovely range of Arwey Notebooks, are designed to be practical and useful as well as good looking. They are available a load of different flavours and guises, each with their own unique twist on the traditional notebook design.

You can get your hands on these lovely features...

- Pockets for notes and documents
- Perforated pages for easy tear-out notes
- Flexible spine which opens flat and folds back when needed
- Set organiser and information pages

We shall very soon give them a thorough going over and give you the low down on how they hold up to our testing, and most importantly what the paper is like when a fountain pen in added into the equation. In the mean time, check out the videos below, and on our website to see the full range.




Friday 25 January 2013

pure Wality...




Wality Fountain Pens come from India where they have been manufactured since 1951.

The ink filling mechanism is eyedropper on this fountain pen. A fairly substantial size with a  length when capped of 147 mm, diameter of the barrel is 13.5mm. The diameter of the cap is 15mm. 



 With a steel cap band, steel clip, the nib is Wality fine tipped nib.

What do you reckon to it? Good? or Bad? Would you have one?


  

Thursday 24 January 2013

New Inks from Conway Stewart


                                                      Conway Stewart Fountain Pen Ink

Launched in a choice of six colours and named after points of interest close to the Conway Stewart factory in Devon, their new ink line is offered in the substantial 80 ml size bottles with exclusive Conway Stewart packaging.

Bodmin Jet Black, St. Blazey Classic Red, Kingsand Ochre, Tamar Royal Blue, Tavy Denim or Edgcumbe Lavender -- all are non-toxic which results in a free flowing ink to enhance your writing pleasure! Which is your favourite?


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Wednesday 23 January 2013

Lamy Premium Pen Cases



Lamy Premium Leather Writing Cases

A few months ago, Lamy released their new Premium Pen Cases. This new collection encompasses a concise selection of classic leather goods in a timelessly modern design. In addition to attractive cases for writing instruments, the assortment is complemented by functional wallets and card cases.

If you're not in the Shrewsbury area, you can now order the single and double pen cases via our website, here...



Wednesday 2 January 2013

Sailor - Winter Under the Stars



Limited Edition Kaga maki-e series of 28 pieces.

Enter the serene silence of the snow covered Winter night landscape and see the Stars and the main constellation of Winter:

Orion.

'Winter Under the Stars' is a limited edition series of fountain pens crafted using the Sailor King of Pens by the celebrated kaga maki-e artist Ikki Moroike.

Sailor will produce the other three editions of the other 'Seasons Under the Stars' during 2013.

Japanese woodblock artwork from the famous Edo period is well known in the East. There are also other important and influential Japanese artists born in the latter part of the 19th Century known as the Shin Hanga (new woodblock) artist movement, which started around 1910-1940.

Sailor have chosen works from four of these Shin Hanga artists, all of whom were famous for their special artistic (shiki-e) of landscape painting, typically showing night landscapes.
Ikki Moroike (kaga - maki-e artist) has drawn his inspiration from these night landscape compositions and he has specially added the Stars and main Constellation of the Seasons concerned to the night skies.

For this model Winter Under The Stars he has chosen Shin Hanga artist Kawase Hasui (1883-1957), who was regarded as the master of snow scapes.

The woodblock painting chosen by this artist is 'Canal in the Snow'.