With a glass pen, one could write a paragraph or up to half a page without having to reload the tip. Conventional dip pens typically had to be reloaded with ink by the end of each sentence.

“This is the first time I’ve had a room of my own, where I can immerse myself in my artistic universe,” says Greening, whose repertoire of Gothic-infused dip pen-and-ink drawings includes ...

And fright is kind of the point — you just dip it in ink and it holds a few words worth of drippy, slasher film-type letters. I got a lovely glass pen for my anniversary this year. It’s a dip ...

Every antique tells a story. It’s often one of change, sometimes over a relatively small amount of time. Look at the simple act of writing. Most of us probably have several ballpoint pens scattered ...

Salt glaze potter Steve Harrison has collaborated with the cult London stationers Choosing Keeping on a desk collection. This ...

I transfer my sketch onto textured drawing paper on a lightbox. I use a dip pen and India ink when I draw. Then I scan the line drawing and colour it in Photoshop. Always be contributing, Model ...

Dip it into water. Hold it over the spoon and ... If so, chromatography is used to reveal the dye pattern in the fragments, just like the pen ink in Yan’s note. If the dye pattern of the crime ...

Every antique tells a story. It’s often one of change, sometimes over a relatively small amount of time. Look at the simple ...

Take a paper towel and blot as much of the ink as possible. Dip a clean, dry microfiber cloth ... it is possible to remove ...

To create such small spots Sinensky and Belcher used a lithography technique called dip-pen nanolithography ... by using an AFM tip as a pen, and 'ink' containing protein or ssDNA.

Roxy Szigat of Gilbert writes beautifully for a living. But rather than hitting bestseller lists, her aim is aestheticism and to elicit admiration. Szigat is a professional calligrapher, and her ...

The plastic disc under bottle caps keeps drinks fizzy. Most people don't even notice the small piece of plastic under the ...