Learn how to make quill ink from beets and a quill pen from a single feather in this comprehensive tutorial. Quill pens have been used as writing implements for centuries, the number of which isn ...

Beth Grossman is in the process of transcribing the entire US Constitution on old US Mint money bags using quill feather pens. The pens are the same tool used by scribes of the original document ...

CHILDREN had a feather in their caps after successfully using quills to write calligraphy at a medieval activity day. Visitors to the Museum of Oxford blew off modern-day biros in favour of ...

I’m not a great quill carver, but the DIY aspect makes me feel even more connected to the act of writing. I opted for goose quills because that was the feather of choice for the Founding generation.

It was the goose quill that dominated the writing market. The number of quill pens that were produced in the early 19th century were astounding. Germany used 50 million quill pens per year.

I’m not going to lie, I don’t really need to know how to cut and make a quill pen from a goose feather. No one does anymore. But! I was completely fascinated by the process of it.

The quill pen that Admiral Lord Nelson wrote his last, unfinished letter on HMS Victory two days before the Battle of Trafalgar in southern Spain has sold for £10,000.

Beth Grossman is in the process of transcribing the entire US Constitution on old US Mint money bags using quill feather pens. The pens are the same tool used by scribes of the original document ...