Calligraphy

The Faber-Castell Grip 2011 calligraphy set contains the Faber-Castell Grip 2011 fountain pen with three different nib widhts: 1.1mm, 1.4mm and 1.8mm. The set also comes with three boxes of ink cartridges in the colors black, pink and blue. The Faber-Castell Grip 2011 fountain pen has the same ergonomic triangular cross-section as the Faber-Castell Grip 2001, while the non-slip grip zone helps provide a comfortable and relaxing hold for all of your writing sessions. The fountain pen has a stainless teel nib and uses a cartridge/converter filling mechanism. Faber-Castell aims to provide a pleasurable writing experience for the user by combining attractive designs with functionalism. The innovative writing instruments of Faber-Castell are created from high quality components, with the recurring visual feature of wood most noticeable in their ranges – a feature that symbolises Faber-Castell’s worldwide core competence. Their styles vary from classic to futuristic, simple to more decorative, ensuring that there is a pen to suit everyone’s tastes. We think that these elegant products are particularly suitable as presents. With 250 years experience behind the brand you can be sure you are receiving the highest quality when you purchase a Faber-Castell Design pen...

The slim metal barrel of the Graf von Faber-Castell Tamitio Black Fountain pen promises stylish writing pleasure whose fine fluting is a real eye-catcher. The surface of the Graf von Faber-Castell Tamitio Black Fountain pen also attests to its meticulous craftsmanship: the technically-innovative varnish created specially for the "Graf von Faber-Castell Tamitio" is applied several times and imparts it with a durable, noble, matt look. Highly polished front and end pieces accent the barrel to great affect just like the subtlety engraved "Handmade in Germany" seal of quality. The fountain pen is equipped with a practical cartridge/converter system and use the standard international size for ink cartridges, the high-quality stainless steel nib is strikingly smooth and the set comes with a 1.1mm, 1.4mm and a 1.8mm nib. In 1761, Kaspar Faber started to produce pencils in Stein, near Nuremberg. When the fourth generation,Baron Lothar von Faber, took over the company in 1839 he turned the pencil into a true quality product and the world's first branded writing instrument. Over the centuries, he and his descendants created remarkable products. The result is the Graf von Faber-Castell Collection, a range of extraordinary writing instruments and accessories. They embody "Luxury in Simplicity" by combining selected materials, functionality and superb aesthetics.  ..

There are only a few writing instruments which have been successful in the market for decades without big changes. One of them is of course the Kaweco Skyline Sport. It follows the design of the year 1935. A friendship for generations. The Kaweco Black Calligraphy Set includes a Kaweco Sport fountain pen with a 1.1mm calligraphy nib as well as three exchangeable inserts with a stroke width of 1.5, 1.9 and 2.3mm. The Kaweco Calligraphy set is available in black and white and is beautifully packaged in a metal gift box. The set additionally includes three protective caps for the exchangeable inserts as well as two boxes of original Kaweco ink cartridges and an instruction booklet. Striking at the Kaweco Sport Black Fountain pen is that it is very small. The pen has a lenght of only 10.5 cm with closed cap, and therefore easy to store in a bag or pocket, but with the cap on the back of the penit measures 13.5 cm and it is excellent to write with.  The Kaweco Sport Black Fountain pen has a steel nib made by the German company Bock Heidelberg and fills by cartridge or converter. Kaweco belongs to one of the oldest brands on the market. For more than 125 years Kaweco pens are an integral part of the High-Class assortments. Kaweco insistently focuses on the thin line between tradition and innovation and therewith since 1883 secur..

There is writing. And then there is calligraphy. Calligraphy is to writing what marquetry is to carpentry. It is the act of applying a second level to the communication which writing accomplishes, for – regardless of form or font – a word on the page or manuscript has a specific meaning. Calligraphy enhances the actual letters which form a word by adding a visual element that both complements and reinforces the message. When written calligraphically, letters and words transcend their basic forms and become precious items. To couple together the spiritual and visual elements of Arabic calligraphy, and to translate them into a pen design, Montegrappa turned to the Lebanese artist and designer, Katya Assouad Traboulsi. Her creativity marries the calligraphy and the Arabesque pattern, which are intricately bound together by history and culture. Based in Dubai, Traboulsi was born in 1960. Since 1986, her work has been exhibited in Paris, Washington, Mexico City, New York, London, Kuwait, Algiers, Beirut, Dubai and other capitals. Traboulsi’s art has entered many private collections all over the world. She has also also published two books, Of Others (2011) and Generation War’ (2013). Traboulsi’s design for the Montegrappa Calligraphy pen features an elegant arabesque medallion in silver as a cap top and an exquisite interplay of enamel arabesque patterns in mother-of-pearl white, red and green. The pen barrel is characterised by its Arabic calligraphy phrase, virtuously embossed on a silver background. The phrase literally reads: “the pen transports culture”, and the symbolism of this phrase is that the pen has been the instrument of transmitting knowledge and culture through time and across generations. Available as a fountain pen only, but with a wide range of nibs including oblique and stub versions preferred by calligraphers, the Montegrappa Calligraphy writing instrument is made of bamboo black celluloid with sterling silver trim. The fountain pen is fitted with an 18K gold nib enhanced with a bicolour arabesque motif. Delivered in a hand-made wooden case devised to protect the pen, it also houses a hardback version of the special book, “Arabic Calligraphy: Worlds Made Precious”. The Montegrappa Calligraphy pen is a limited edition comprising 328 pieces, this number representing the first and oldest discovered document written in a dialect of Arabic and dated 328 CE. Italy's first pen manufacturer, Montegrappa, began manufacturing pens in 1912 in its factory in Bassano del Grappa - a picturesque town along the Brenta River, which flows through Alpine foothills in northeastern Italy. Utilizing natural celluloid and precious metals, Montegrappa combines traditional methods such as die-casting with more recent innovations as low-relief engraving to form their precious art objects. Whether they use colors reminiscent of the master painters or ornamentation suggestive of Baroque palaces, the Italian heritage and romance is infused into each product...