Feather Pen Available Today is a Distant Imitations of the Authentic Item

The name "pen" is derived from the Latin wordend of a rod. Little by little the feather pen and its
"penna", which means feather. This is a writingvariants inspired the invention of the modern fountain
instrument that, manually through capillary action appliespens, since people had to find a system that would no
ink to a surface, usually paper. Pens can be used withlonger rely on repetitive dipping of the feather pen in
inks of many colors but commonly make use of inks inink. The hardness level of the nibs we use today is
shades varying between black, blue, red, anddefinitely one hundred times higher than that of the
sometimes green. There are many different kinds ofinitial feather pen.
pens, some of which are listed here i.e. Reed pens,Though tradition has made us believe that the feather
Quills, Metal nibs, Fountain pens, Ballpoints, Felt tips,pen preserved the real feather as such, history proves
Roller balls and the Porous Point. All the pens of theotherwise; apparently all the hairs were removed and
world are made around these different. Pens are alsothe feather structure was cut at a comfortable size
classified depending on the type of tip thatfor the hand. Writing was definitely slower that we
accompanies the pen, there is the ballpoint pen, theknow it today, not just because of the many feather
rollerball pen, the fountain pen, the felt-tip pen and alsopen dippings in ink, but also because of the quality of
the gel pen.the materials on which people were writing. The
The first feather pen was used as a writing instrumentcapillary structure of natural feathers was the one to
around the year 500 BC; dried and well cleaned,have actually inspired the inventors of the first fountain
feathers were great in combination with ink made ofpen.
herbal extracts. Swan, goose or turkey feathers werePresently, there are plenty of feather pen models, but
the only ones reliable for writing since their thickerthey are distant imitations of the authentic items that
capillary system sucked more ink. The feather penwhere used in parchment writing. Thus, you can find
was made by sharpening the tip of the feather andfeather-shaped fountain pens and ballpoints that
splitting it in half so that the ink could spread evenly onschool-age children usually enjoy. They are pretty
the writing material. During the last millennium BC, thecheap and often show special distinctive features such
Egyptians had invented an alternative to the featheras multicolor writing, and sparkling or even invisible ink
pen by using sharp sticks to apply soot to the papyrus.use. Considered great gifts for the Christmas holidays
Instead of a feather pen, the ancient Chinese usedor special family celebrations, a modern feather pen
brushes made of camel and mouse fur that werepreserves only the simulated image of the real writing
passed through clay. In case the material that had totool that was so widely used not more than two
be written on was silk, very fine brushes were used,centuries ago.
and they simply consisted of a few hairs added at the