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How to: Make Ink Ring Swatches

Author AnaPosted on May 28, 2020May 27, 202014 Comments

After my Ask The Desk post about sheening inks, I’ve had many questions about how to make ink ring swatches. I first saw these in a lot of the swatches from Asian pen enthusiasts and I wracked my brain trying to figure out how they did it. I made a mess of many pages of…

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Author Jessica ColesPosted on July 15, 2019July 15, 20192 Comments

or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Sell Some Ink By Jessica Coles My interest in fountain pens began nearly a decade ago and it used to be under control.  Especially at the beginning of my obsession, it was easy to keep my collection small since I couldn’t really afford much.  But that changed…

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