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Full size sheets of beautiful Saunders-Waterford 100% cotton watercolour paper. Available in 300gsm cold press (medium texture), hot press (smooth texture) or rough (the most textured). Choice of bright high white or traditional off white for a warmer look. Cotton gives you more time. It takes longer to dry than cotton blends or wood pulp papers that contain no cotton...

Our most popular beginner fountain pens:

1. TWSBI Eco: This #1 seller features a piston-filling mechanism, transparent barrel, and smooth-writing nib, offering value for money. Cartridge-free. Fill directly with any brand of bottled fountain pen ink.

2. Pilot Kakuno: Features a smiley-face nib that indicates the correct writing orientation. It's lightweight, comfortable to hold, and offers a reliable writing experience. Compatible with Pilot cartridges or converter 70 to draw up bottled

Our most popular gold nib fountain pens:

1. Pilot Capless: The retractable 18K nib and practical design make it a popular choice for quick note-taking. Combined with the slimmer Capless Decimo, this is our most popular range.

2. Pilot Custom 823: Known for its large 14K nib, smooth writing experience and large ink capacity, this is Jen's favourite gold nib pen.

3. Sailor Professional Gear: This series offers a wide range of 21K gold nib options, known for their precise writing performance and hint of pleasurable feedback. Smaller hands prefer the Pro

Our most popular Twsbi fountain pens:

1. TWSBI Eco: Our top seller, known for its affordable price, piston-filling mechanism, large ink capacity, and transparent design. 

2. TWSBI Diamond 580: The next model up, with a larger nib, more ink capacity and interchangeable nib units. Compatible with the Twsbi Diamond Ink Well. The 580 ALR, with aluminium details and ribbed grip, is the newest model.

3. TWSBI Vac700R: Loved for its large overall size and vacuum-filling mechanism. Compatible

These are our most popular Pilot fountain pens:

1. Pilot Metropolitan & Kakuno: These are our top sellers and recommended as excellent entry-level fountain pens. Affordable, yet offer smooth writing, from a reliable stainless steel nib. Metropolitan (also called Cocoon) offers the advantage of an all metal body, whereas the Kakuno can fit the Converter 70 (sold separately) to hold more ink.

2. Pilot Custom 823: Jen's favourite gold nib pen, known for its ink capacity, large 14K nib and smooth writing experience. It features a vacuum filling system, suiting

Larry and I were talking just the other day about wouldn't it be good if Twsbi launched another pen in the Aurora/Draco line. Well, here it is! The Twsbi Kai (right image) with what looks like the same specs as the two previous models, the green 2019 Twsbi Aurora and the pink 2021 Twsbi Draco (left image). A arge capacity...

Due for release late October 2023, this is the latest of the white editions. A warm red with fine white stripes, toned to 24ct plated gold trimming and the 14ct bigold nib. A quality made German pen, with the reliable 600 nib. (I think it’s the best out of the box for the Pelikan Souveran range. Just something nice about...

Two years ago Pelikan sent us some concept drawings for a new fountain pen based on their back catalogue of advertising posters from the early 1900’s. Fritz Beindorff, the then owner of Pelikan, was an early user of design competitions as a way of collaborating with leading artists. Now we were being asked to consider how these historical posters could...

Released in June 2023, this is a special edition of the popular Pelikan M200 fountain pen range. Following on from previous pastel releases, Pastel Blue is a slightly transparent blue resin, with white wispy highlights. As you turn the pen barrel in your hand, the white picks up the light, to give off a pearl like lustre. A clear ink...

A cheeky April Fools joke, where we announced the compulsory use of fountain pens in high schools, uncovered lots of fountain pen lovers, but also just as many people who'd never experienced that beautiful feeling of fountain pen ink flowing across a page. So to help the fountain pen naive, we've put together this list to explain what all the fountain...