Ink Overview: Kuretake Art Nouveau Collection

Ink Overview: Kuretake Art Nouveau Collection

While attending the Dallas Pen Show I had the opportunity to talk with the rep from Chartpak, the distributor of many popular art and design supplies. He was displaying new products from Kuretake — their fountain pen ink lines including the Art Nouveau series which is inspired by the art nouveau art movement which was…

Ink Review: Kuretake Ink-Cafe Meiji no Iro Araishu and Shikon

Ink Review: Kuretake Ink-Cafe Meiji no Iro Araishu and Shikon

What? Another new ink line? Several new ink manufacturers seem to have appeared recently, although, like today’s example, most have been in business for many years. Kuretake isn’t new to the pen world or to ink, but their Ink-cafe line is new to the market. I chose to review two inks in the Ink-cafe line…