Though I had grown up seeing my dad always using them, my own obsession with fountain pens started a little over three years ago, when I ordered my first pen, a jade-colored TWSBI Eco. It made writing ...

Fountain pens were a stylish statement but messy and impractical. Their replacement was a stroke of design genius perfectly in time for the era of mass production. On 29 October 1945, the New York ...

In an age of screens and keyboarding, when kids hardly learn cursive anymore, fountain pens — along with their old-timey accoutrements like blotters, bottled ink and fancy nibs — are making a comeback ...

The old-fashioned aspect of fountain pens holds great appeal: ‘People describe drawing ink into their pen from an ink bottle and wiping the nib as a Zen-like experience,’ says one aficionado (Pictures ...

Dr Imran Ijaz Haider has travelled all over the world to see, buy and use the most popular and state-of-the-art fountain pens. His passion for writing with fountain pens dates back to his early ...