The pens, nibs, grinding stones and powders used to write by hand with ink, from the quill cut from a feather to the Chinese inkstone on which dry ink is ground with water. A tool belongs here when its cited source describes it as used to write with ink or to prepare it. It excludes the tools that cut and fold paper and the equipment that makes it. Calligraphers and scribes build their tools around the pen and ink they favour, and the supplies in this group are the ones that appear again and again in the history of handwriting.
Pens, Inks and Writing Supplies
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Erasing shield (Wikipedia)
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An erasing shield, eraser shield, or erasure shield is a thin template or mask used to control the effects of an eraser, typically on paper media used by an artist, calligrapher, drafter, or typist.
Lettering guide (Wikipedia)
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A lettering guide template is a special type of template used to write uniform characters.
Dictionary.com: inkstone definition
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a slab of stone used in Chinese calligraphy and painting to grind dry ink and mix it with water.
Dictionary.com: nib definition
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the point of a pen, or either of its divisions.
Dictionary.com: pounce definition
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a fine powder, as of cuttlebone, formerly used to prevent ink from spreading in writing, or to prepare parchment for writing.
Quill (Wikipedia)
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A quill is a writing tool made from a moulted flight feather of a large bird.
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