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 ...

Fellow Redditors jumped in with various cleaning hacks, including one peculiar suggestion – soaking the trousers in milk. Someone suggested: "If it's pen ink, I had milk work once to soak some out." ...

You can use other, better tools later, but pens are always a great first tool. If you’re not encumbered by an uncomfortable grip, ink that skips, or a scratchy, draggy contact point, your ideas ...

It marks the origin of the pen knife. Before 1850, the process for vulcanization of rubber had not been discovered, and the only way to correct a writing mistake was to scratch the ink off the ...