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  2. List of terms about pen and ink - Wikipedia

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    Ballpoint pen – an ink pen which uses a roller ball tip; Ballpoint pen artwork; Bic Cristal – a brand of inexpensive, disposable ink pen; Birmingham pen trade – commerce of ink pens in Birmingham, England; Birmingham Pen Trade Heritage Association; Biro – a type of ink pen, also known as a ballpoint pen

  3. Penmanship - Wikipedia

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    Example of classic American business cursive handwriting known as Spencerian script from 1884 A thin object (pen), held with three fingers, allows one to draw thin lines. Penmanship is the technique of writing with the hand using a writing instrument .

  4. List of pen types, brands and companies - Wikipedia

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    A pen is a handheld device used to apply ink to a surface, usually paper, for writing or drawing. [1] Additional types of specialized pens are used in specific types of applications and environments such as in artwork, electronics, digital scanning and spaceflight, and computing.

  5. Fountain pen - Wikipedia

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    A fountain pen is a writing instrument that uses a metal nib to apply water-based ink, or special pigment ink—suitable for fountain pens—to paper.It is distinguished from earlier dip pens by using an internal reservoir to hold ink, eliminating the need to repeatedly dip the pen in an inkwell during use.

  6. List of PEN literary awards - Wikipedia

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    PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay: For a book of original collected essays 1990 Active PEN/Edward and Lily Tuck Award for Paraguayan Literature: To honor an author of a major work of Paraguayan literature and the English translator. 2012 Active PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award

  7. Calligraphy - Wikipedia

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    The ink used for writing is usually water-based and is much less viscous than the oil-based ink used in printing. Certain specialty paper with high ink absorption and constant texture enables cleaner lines, [ 11 ] although parchment or vellum is often used, as a knife can be used to erase imperfections and a light-box is not needed to allow ...

  8. Pounce (powder) - Wikipedia

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    Pounce is gently sprinkled all over the writing on the paper. When using a quill or a steel nib, and with inks that are made up to match those typically in use during the 18th and 19th centuries, and provided the pen has been used with the fine strokes typical of handwriting of that period, the handwriting will be sufficiently dry within 10 seconds to allow the paper to be folded without blotting.

  9. Shakespeare's handwriting - Wikipedia

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    All three drafts include a pen-and-ink sketch of the proposed coat-of-arms: a shield, with a spear, surmounted by a falcon standing on its left leg, grasping a spear with its right talon. The coat-of-arms is seen to be pictorially expressing Shakespeare's name with the verb "shake" shown by the falcon with its fluttering wings grasping a "spear".