Rules for Pens

Stephanie over at Rhodia Drive recently asked how we chose which ink to use. I am the kind of person who spends way too much time thinking about these things and funnily enough a few days before Stephanie wrote about this I had written down some rules, for myself, in an attempt to stop myself…

Diamine China Blue ink review

Sometimes in late Spring you wake up and step outside and it’s damp underfoot and the air is cool but you can feel on your face that it’s going to be a beautiful warm day. On those days the sky is the same colour as this ink. Writing with this ink is like writing with…

Diamine Twilight ink review

I think it’s hard to instil much character in a dark blue-black ink but Diamine have managed it with Twilight. It’s a beautiful colour with lots of shading. Lamy pur 47, 1.1mm italic nib, Monsieur notebook, terrible handwriting.

Close