Author: Wei
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Taccia Classic Blue Jeans on Midori MD
Ink In 2020, Taccia launched the Jeans collection, a range of inks inspired by the colour of jeans. This is the Dark Washed Jeans ink from the collection. The ink is an unsaturated mid-range blue with a little shading and no sheen. I didn’t notice any feathering or bleedthrough on Midori MD paper. I think…
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Pilot Iroshizuku Kon-Peki on Rhodia
Ink Pilot Iroshizuku is Pilot’s luxury line of fountain pen inks. The inks are consistent and well-behaved, garnering many fans. For a while, I hold off buying a bottle because they are more expensive compared to other ink brands. But of course, “expensive” is a relative term, and there are also ink brands that are…
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Taccia Grey Jeans on Traveler’s Company
Ink In 2020, Taccia launched the Jeans collection, a range of inks inspired by the colour of jeans. This is the Grey Jeans ink from the collection. The ink is a pale blue-grey with an average flow and some shading. I feel this is pretty accurate to the colour that was seen on some types…
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Birmingham Boysenberry on Leuchtturm1917
Ink Birmingham Pen Company is a small family-run business that makes fountain pens and fountain pen inks. While the company started with making fountain pens, it seemed their focus is now on inks. Boysenberry is from the Swift Formula collection where the inks were designed to be wetter than average and performs well in a…
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Taccia Light Washed Jeans on Midori MD
Ink In 2020, Taccia launched the Jeans collection, a range of inks inspired by the colour of jeans. This is the Light Washed Jeans ink from the collection. The ink is a light, unsaturated blue with shading and no sheen. This is the second lightest ink in the Taccia Jeans ink series. It is readable…
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Schedule changes and new papers
Changes to posting schedule The posting frequency will be increased to three posts a week starting next week. New posts will appear every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. I’m also going to try to post a writing sample of a new ink (new as in the ink hadn’t appeared on this site before, not newly launched)…
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Taccia Indigo Jeans on Rhodia
Ink In 2020, Taccia launched the Jeans collection, a range of inks inspired by the colour of jeans. This is the Indigo Jeans ink from the collection. The ink is a dark blue with a wet flow. On Rhodia paper, there is shading and no sheen. There is also no feathering or bleedthrough. Cleaning a…
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Ferris Wheel Press Three Steamboats on Rhodia
Ink Ferris Wheel Press Three Steamboats is from the Freshly Squeezed Collection. The ink looks like a minty green to me. It is a lovely colour with shading and no sheen. However, in writing, I find that it often lays down too light a line and the high contrast of the shading means I have…
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Taccia Black Jeans on Traveler’s Company
Ink In 2020, Taccia launched the Jeans collection, a range of inks inspired by the colour of jeans. This is the Black Jeans ink from the collection. This is a black ink which shades from dark grey to black. I do like my black inks to be dark and black. I tried to see if…
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Notebooks from Singaporean brands
While browsing through the stationery section in shops, I came across some local stationary brands that are new to me. So like any curious fountain pen user, I bought some notebooks to try out. A6 notebooks from wheniwasfour First up are the cute notebooks from wheniwasfour. I bought these A6 notebooks from Tokyu Hands for…
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