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Happy new year!
Just in time for the holidays we got sick at home, so I wasn’t able to write any of the ink reviews I had planned. So we’ll have to accept the fact, that I can only write reviews about inks from time to time when my evenings aren’t used for relaxation. But nevertheless, I’m still around and I’m still doing ink reviews. Here’s a short overview about my collection: I’m meanwhile at around 100 inks and all of them are swatched on little swatch cards. Almost everyone of them was inked up in one of my approx. 15 fountain pens (I’m afraid to count the exakt number haha) and I…
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Paper for Fountain Pens and Inks
It’s a never ending discussion about what’s more important: the ink, the fountain pen or the paper? Does every ink write in the same way in every fountain pen and on every paper? Spoiler: No. For me the paper is really important. There are so many differences: the texture can be soft, it could be coated, it could be smooth or rough. And then there’s also the possibility that the ink “sits” on the paper or soaks into it. So while making ink swatches I always test the inks on different papers. Coming from the bullet journal community I have a lot of journals and different kind of papers at…
