The art of writing: a nib for a Montblanc fountain pen is put to the test in the factory Credit: Photo: Richard Blanshard/Getty Images SIR – When did I last see someone using a fountain pen (Letters, ...

Fountain pens have been in use for a very long time, with the first patent registered all the way back in 1827. With the invention of word processors, writing has changed a lot since then but one ...

This is One Thing, a column with tips on how to live. Growing up in Saudi Arabia, I learned cursive with a fountain pen in the third grade as part of the standard curriculum. I wasn’t good at school, ...

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The popularity of journaling and letter writing is a big driver of the resurgence of more elegant writing instruments ...

Among the obituaries of a former Conservative Minister a few years ago, there was one delightful snippet. A line in The Daily Telegraph described how, when she received the letter from Mrs Thatcher ...

In the world of e-books, iPads and Kindles, the humble fountain pen has made a comeback with sales more than doubling in the past year. The art of writing: a nib for a Montblanc fountain pen is put to ...

You might expect that email and the ballpoint pen had killed the fountain pen. But sales are rising, so is the fountain pen a curious example of an old-fashioned object surviving the winds of change?

An Air China flight had to be diverted after a passenger held a crew member hostage using a fountain pen as a weapon. Flight 1350 was heading from Changsha to Beijing on Sunday morning when the man ...

Fountain pens have been in use for a very long time, with the first patent registered all the way back in 1827. With the invention of word processors, writing has changed a lot since then but one ...