In this video I make an ancient pigment only found in the finest Japanese calligraphy ink, which doubles as one of the rarest firework ingredients in the world. Links to find the supplies used in ...

Using a fountain pen may take you back to your childhood and learning to write with ink for the first time ... looking to breathe new life into the ancient art of letter writing – countless ...

Armed with a bamboo ink pen and a steady hand, Ethiopian Orthodox priest Zelalem Mola carefully copies text in the ancient scriptural language Geez from a religious book onto a goatskin parchment.

It marks the origin of the pen knife. Before 1850, the process for vulcanization of rubber had not been discovered, and the only way to correct a writing mistake was to scratch the ink off the ...

New research suggests that ancient Egyptian scribes ... chewed fresh ends for the brush-like “pens” they used, which were fashioned from a reed. The ink was usually black and made from soot ...

Have you ever walked in the shade of a mighty oak tree? In late summer or fall, you may find an odd little brown woody ball attached to a fallen twig. Look up into the tree, and you may see more ...

It’s probably hard to imagine writing with a feather and a bottle of ink, but that’s what writing was limited to for hundreds of years. When fountain pens first came along, they were ...

Humans have been getting ink for at least 5,200 years. Here are some of the most intriguing ancient tattoos, from cultic symbols to complex horse motifs. The remains of the intricately tattooed ...