MechPen
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A reference companion to the museum — curated topic sections that go deeper on the subjects behind the collection. Every entry, image, and fact is drawn from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons.
Writing Instruments
The tools themselves — fountain, ballpoint, rollerball, and gel pens, the mechanical and wooden pencil, and the nibs and tips that put ink or graphite on the page.
12 entriesInks & Materials
What flows and what receives it — dye and pigment inks, iron gall and India ink, graphite, and the papers, parchments, and sizing that decide how a line behaves.
13 entriesHistory of Writing
From reed and quill to the modern pen — the scribes, surfaces, and inventors behind writing, and the people who gave us the fountain pen and the ballpoint.
12 entriesCraft & Calligraphy
Writing as an art — penmanship and handwriting, the great calligraphic traditions of East and West, and the scripts and brushwork that raise letters into design.
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