Tuesday Tidbits: Pen, Paper And Ink Links
01/28/2020José Naranja makes beautiful journals that he on occasion offers for sale. Oh, and I didn’t even make it through January without falling in love with an ink from Colorverse. What do you think of it?
- What is Washi tape? + Ten Tips to Use It (#4, 5, 7, and 8 work well in my journals.)
- Notebook Stories: Daily Carry Notebook
- Pen Chalet: Lamy Al-Star Special Edition (Gorgeous color!)
- Stamps, Scientific Charts, and Hand-Drawn Maps Occupy Every Inch of Travel Notebooks by José Naranja (h/t Fountain Pen Quest)
- The Well-Appointed Desk: Ink Review: Taccia Ukiyo-e Inks
- Retro 51 is going on a sabbatical (h/t Brad Dowdy – The Pen Addict)
- Jet Pens: Lefty-Friendly Stationery Videos
- Life Imitates Doodles: Review: Hahnemühle 1584 Notebook (Via Doodlewash)
- Watercolors Meet A Laban Fountain Pen
- The Getty-Dubay App: Handwriting Success for Real Life (h/t Kate Gladstone)
- Exaclair Has The Classic Blues
- Colorverse No. 24 Gluon (The first ink to go on my 2020 wish list.)
- Papyrus closing all stores (In my early FP days, it was a source for good paper and greeting cards.)
From the archives, a photo of my mother’s jet beads, a silk flower, Rhodia pad, and ten pens. The red Lamy Safari looks out of place but it’s a good writer. In my rotation, how a pen writes is more important than its form. Which is more important to you?
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Oh, no! I love Papyrus stores. 😦
That Gluon ink is really pretty! Colorverse has some great colors.
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Choices are certainly narrowing. Hallmark is all that is left when it comes to stationery stores and they are few in this area.
Yes, Colorverse does have some exciting colors. Do you have any of them?
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We also have Paper Source in my area, so I’ve been trying to make sure to support them. I had been shopping at Papyrus too, but they were less convenient to access, so I didn’t go as often.
Oh, I have lots of Colorverse colors (given the relatively small size of my ink stash). I have Redshift, Schrodinger & Cat (glistening), Hayabusa (glistening), Supernatural, and… one more glistening ink. Maybe one of the brown ones? I forget.
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Great colors. I would like Supernatural for the name if not the color. 🙂
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I bought Supernatural to replace a very old pistachio ink that I loved, but which did not age well. And I’m really glad I did, because it’s an even better ink than the one it was replacing!
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Better in terms of color, performance or both?
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Color shading, mostly. But it’s also been a very long time since I used the pistachio one in its prime, so it’s hard to judge.
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That’s my favorite special characteristic of ink.
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What is that fourth pen down from the top??? It’s gorgeous!
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That pen is a Levenger True Writer in the long retired “mink” color. On occasion, one will be offered on eBay. I may decide to offer a few pens in coming months though have given no thought as to which ones I would sell. Let me know via email if that TW would be of interest. inkophile *at* gmail.com.
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