Feather Quill Calligraphy Set

  • Made of goose feather
  • The set includes a quill pen with pewter head, a bottle of ink with pen holder and 3 extra nibs
  • Handmade in Italy

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Description of the Product

The classic handcrafted goose feather quill pens give you the opportunity to revive the lost art of elegant hand-writing and to surprise a special someone with a private and precious hand-written note or a letter. The set is beautifully packaged, making it an ideal gift for a special occasion such as graduation. The set is an excellent choice for the keen amateur calligrapher. Made in Italy.

This beautiful calligraphy set is comprised of goose feather quill pen with pewter head, a bottle of ink with pen holder, three extra nibs and calligraphy booklet, scroll about the history of calligraphy.

Story of calligraphy:

The earliest ancestor of the pen was probably the camel or rat hair brushes used by the Chinese in the first millennium BCE. Running parallel to the Chinese advancement of a brush pen around 500–300 BCE was the Egyptian’s employment of a Calamus or Bamboo reed writing implement. The split, frayed, and carved ends of the reeds were used on papyrus reed sheets which could accept fine lines.

In order to save Christianity’s religious doctrines and ideals, monks (most in British monasteries) learned to split and shape the hollow end of moulted goose feathers to copy the earliest manuscripts of western civilization. Between 600–1800 CE quill pens became the principal writing instrument. Thomas Jefferson was said to have bred geese specifically to fill his own vast need for quills. However, quills required constant re-trimming and held enough ink only for a few words at a time.

It was not until 1830 that steelmakers from Birmingham, England developed a technique, still in use today, to produce cheap, long wearing steel pen nibs. By 1850 quills, for the most part, had been replaced by wooden styluses with steel nibs. The nibs continued to be improved upon by tipping them with hard alloys such as iridium, rhodium and osmium in order to last longer.

For practice, draw horizontal parallel lines about 2cm
from each other on a piece of paper. Shake the ink bottle before use. The nib, filled with ink from immersion, first has to be tapped lightly in the bottle rim to free it of the excess ink that would immediately stain the paper on first contact with the nib. Before tracing any definite mark, always try a rough draft to verify the right ink quantity and the absence of any foreign body on the point. For a smooth and consistent release of ink from nib to paper, the pen should always be held at a 20–45 degree angle to the paper.

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Jukka Valli
Jukka Valli
12/03/2024
Tilasin keskiaikaisen hupun. 100% puuvillaa, joten voi käsitellä kosteussuoja-aineella. Vaivatonta kaupankäyntiä.
Hanna Nieminen
Hanna Nieminen
10/03/2024
Sain kaksi muistikirjaa ja kalligrafiasetin setin 25-vuotis lahjaksi rakkaaltani. Ne ovat upeita! Olen saanut valtavasti kyselyitä muistikirjan alkuperästä ja kehunut Rautaporttia laadukkaasta käsityöstä. Tuotteista huokuu estetiikka, laatu ja taianomaisuus. Täydellinen lahja historia-/fantasianörtille!
Lauri Lehtimäki
Lauri Lehtimäki
09/03/2024
Hyvän oloisia ja näköisiä tuotteita. Hinnatkin järkeviä.
Jani Kuusela
Jani Kuusela
02/03/2024
Loista kauppa mistä löytyy paljon kiinnostavaa tavaraa. Samoin loistava asiakaspalvelu jollaista saisi olla joka kaupassa.
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ThreeQuarters 3/4
01/03/2024
I'm very happy to shop and cooperate with this company. The customer service is perfect, fast and friendly. The products have good quality, good prices and are exactly what you see at the pictures, no fake photos. I'm just received a package 📦 today, and it takes 7 days from Finland 🇫🇮 to come to Greece 🇬🇷. Very fast and easy!!
Maaret Pasanen
Maaret Pasanen
29/02/2024
Siis aivan huikea!! Tilasin pari tuotetta aamupäivällä, ja 24h myöhemmin ne olivat jo noudettavissa postin automaatista! Kaikki sujui kuin rasvattu, ei ole mitään moitittavaa. Vaatteet olivat juuri sitä mitä tilasin, ja koot pitävät kyllä todella hyvin paikkansa! 😍 Aion ehdottomasti tilata vielä uudestaan, ja ehdottomasti suosittelen kaikille!
Annika Hägglund
Annika Hägglund
26/02/2024
Tuote vastasi kuvausta ja toimitettiin nopeasti
Jarmo Perämäki
Jarmo Perämäki
25/02/2024
Erittäin nopea toimitus. Tilatut replika aseet juuri sellaisia kun luvattiin 👍
Rasmus Lumirotko
Rasmus Lumirotko
23/02/2024
Sähköpostitiedusteluuni vastattiin nopeasti ja paketti saapui perille parissa päivässä. Hyvää palvelua!
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Antti Lappi
23/02/2024
Nopea toimitus, helppo asioida, laadukas tuote 👍🤘

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