Crónicas Estilográficas

It is already here—the announced Pilot Custom Urushi in vermillion is already in the shops. The new, although not so much of a novelty, ...

Time flies. By the end of this year of 2017, Pilot’s Iroshizuku inks will become 10 years old. The first “color drops”, such is the meanin...

Past July, I wrote a text – “From Shizuoka” — about the small pen maker by the name of Masahiro Seisakusho. Its website , I said at the time...

Shikiori –meaning “four seasons” in Japanese--  started as a series of fountain pens, ball pens, and mechanical pencils. They came in diffe...

Some months ago I wrote about how Nagasawa Kobe’s inks were available in Tokyo at Itoya's main shop in Ginza . And the prices of those i...

Autumn is here and that also means that the biggest pen event in Europe is coming. The Madrid Pen Show will take place between November 1...

The history of fountain pens is mostly written by the major brands. However, on the side there have always been a bunch of small companies s...