Link Love: Another Year, Another Pelikan Hub

It’s that time of year again! It’s time to sign up for the annual Pelikan Hub! The link to the article on Pelikan’s Perch is below and will include all the links to sign up. The window to sign up is pretty short so be sure to pop over and register today so you don’t miss your spot. Rally your local friends if you have not had a local hub in the past. Maybe sign up to be considered as a Hubmaster this year? This community is great and if you are an excellent party organizer, your local Pelikan Hub could use your help!

If you’re in the Kansa City area, I hope to see you at this year’s hub!

Link of the Week:

• Pelikan Hubs 2024: Uniting Pen Lovers Worldwide (via The Pelikan’s Perch)

Pens:

• Pen Review: TWSBI ECO Caffé Bronze – What is it About These Muted Colors? (via The Gentleman Stationer)
• Endless Creator Fountain Pen Review (via The Poor Penman)
• State of the Writing Instrument World (via Chronicles of a Fountain Pen)
• Kaweco Al-Sport Piston (via Wonder Pens)
• Ballpoint and Gel Pens: Best Practices (via JetPens Blog)
• Mad Science Pen Company Beta Type-R Vanness Collaboration Fountain Pen Review (via The Pen Addict)

Ink:

• Ink Review #2544: Ferris Wheel Press Radiant Rosewing (via Mountain of Ink)
• Krishna Sea At Night (via Inkcredible Colours)
• Wearingeul Night Colored in Grape Ink Review (via Pen Chalet Blog)
• Taccia Hiroshige Ainezu Fountain Pen Ink Review (via The Pen Addict)
• From sample to bottle, a Celadon Cat story (via mnmlscholar)
• Pilot Iroshizuku Kiri-same Fountain Pen Ink Review (via BLAKE’S BROADCAST)
• Ink Review #813: Taccia Ukiyo-e Hiroshige Nakamurasaki (via Fountain Pen Pharmacist)

Pencils:

• Ten Dollar Pencils (via pencil talk)
• Faber Castell Wedding Pencil (via Pencil Fodder)

Notebooks & Paper:

• After Trip Review: Three notebooks and three pens (via Inkcredible Colours)
• Undated planners (via Nero’s Notes)
• TRAVELER’S notebook DIARY 2024 Second Half (via TRAVELER’S COMPANY USA)
• Considering binders: Why? (via Stationery)
• Archer and Olive Dot Grid Planner Stencil Review (including example spreads) (via All About Planners)
• Filofax Personalised Inserts – A potential quality control issue (via Philofaxy)
• Vintage Filofax Organisers – In 2024 what would you buy? (via Philofaxy)

Art & Creativity:

• In Fun Video, Subway Knitting Group Grows One Stitch at a Time (via My Modern Met)
• Four Kitties and a Pup (via Fueled by Clouds & Coffee)
• A new Potter’s Pink (and lots of others colours from Arkaar Creation) (via Liz Steel)
• Brush markers – watercolour and permanent pigmented ink (via Jane Blundell Artist)
• Strategies for filling sketchbook pages during busy periods (via Liz Steel)
• Paint Marker Updates: Omiowl Acrylic, Posca (via Fueled by Clouds & Coffee)
• Lilacs in Gouache – with palette photos. (via Apple-Pine)

Other Interesting Things:

• Did Less, Swatched More, First Impressions (via The Pen Addict)
• Review – Undoing (via Rachel’s Reflections)
• A wooden typewriter kit (via The Typewriter Revolution blog)
• May’s Auroras Were Likely Strongest for Centuries (via My Modern Met)
• Frank Lloyd Wright Projected “City of the Future” at Ellis Island (via My Modern Met)

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