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We just received a very small shipment of Diamine Shimmer inks! Woohoo! Blue Flame, Caramel Sparkle, Cocoa Shimmer, Enchanted Green, Firestorm Red, Golden Oasis, Inferno Orange, Lilac Satin, Magenta Flash, Moon Dust, Pink Glitz and Tropical Glow will be making their appearance at Knight’s Writing Company very soon.Of course being a lover of brown ink I … Read more
I think of all the fountain pens we currently stock at Knight’s Writing Company, Kaweco are among my favourite. While I love the awesome feeling of writing with an amazing Staedtler Lignum, not everyone has $280 to spend on a fountain pen.Kaweco are extremely good value for the price and I always carry an AL … Read more
I always seem to start thinking of blue skies and sandy beaches when the winter weather starts to kick in. It’s been an amazing Summer and Fall. We’ve had more than our fair share of beautiful blue above us. But now I’m dreaming of blue sea!I just wrote about my favourite three blue-black inks. So … Read more
Brown isn’t the only ink that I am passionate about. Blue-blacks also bring me a huge amount of writing pleasure. There is a magical quality about this colour that is hard to describe. When pen goes to paper the ink oozes class but it won’t let you easily define it into a specific colour group. … Read more
I did this ink blot before. But I couldn’t help myself. I had to do it again!Yellow kept cropping up at Scriptus Toronto! In many forms! We had customers ask for all manner of yellow and that surprised me quite a bit. Strangely I’ve never really considered it as a potential favourite colour. Strange, because I love brown … Read more
I have several abused fountain pens on my desk! Capped for weeks. Full of ink. Left like out of vogue toys thrown from of a child’s pram. It got me thinking. With guilt… Remind myself that each and every pen is special and deserves to be kept as so. I can think of a hundred dos and … Read more