Pens, Inks and Writing Supplies

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.