Roughing out poems
Hand-written notes and journals have a magic to them. Durrell is a favourite poet and his house in Greece was as...
Spirit of Dance
In developing a companion website dedicated to love of life and the joys of sharing it, I sifted thousands of...
Handwriting as clothing
Those were the days, when you could flaunt and vaunt through the thrill of the quill.
The investment of...
Inkhorn in one hand, pen in the other
Orlando enjoys a portfolio career, as a courtier, a diplomat, a landowner, a lady under house arrest, but throughout, he-she...
Schoolboy sketches
Maurice Cramer was a Geneva schoolboy who joined his classmates in August 1870 for a school trip to discover Champéry. ...
Handwriting as clothing II
Stansted Park is an elegant house set in 1,700 acres of park and woodland in the south of England....
Of berries and wine
Having a love of ink, the variety of its hues and the names people give them, and the chunky inventive...
The loss of a journal
How many notebooks, journals or letters have been swept away by circumstance, carrying the minutiae of memory with them? Leigh...
Well, well, well – dragons amid clouds
On a joyous day walking around the Art Institute in Chicago, I spotted this beautiful, pristine celadon writing box with...
Ink-blue water
As the logos on this website testify, I'm an ink-geek, and love inky similes. Here is another...
Of pens and pencils
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