In the 18th century, ink production, known then as “inkaust,” was a widely practiced skill, especially among those involved in writing and documentation. The old book “Sztuka Pisania w Trzech Rozdziałach” (“The Art of Writing in Three Chapters”) by Dominik Gabriel Szybiński from 1781 provides detailed recipes and processes for making ink. This blog post will explore […]

Ewan Clayton demonstrates his goose feather quill cutting technique in a short video. The video shows the steps of preparing the quill of a feather to create a calligraphic tool. An interesting feature is the original feather quill knife. Clayton refers to it as the Crow knife and dates the creation of the tool to […]