Category: Lennon Tool Bar

  • Lennon Tool Bar Verdant on World Craft Freiheit

    Lennon Tool Bar Verdant on World Craft Freiheit

    Ink Verdant is from the Spring 2020 limited edition series. The ink is an unsaturated green with a tinge of yellow. This ink has a wet flow. On World Craft Freiheit paper, Writing Sample This was written with a TWSBI ECO-T medium nib. Disclaimer: This ink was purchased by me and all opinions/photos are my…

  • Lennon Tool Bar Hard Rime on Tsubame

    Lennon Tool Bar Hard Rime on Tsubame

    Ink This ink colour was inspired by the look of hard rime freezing on the leaves of coniferous trees. Having spent all my life in a place without seasons, I have no idea what hard rime means. From Wikipedia, rime is a type of ice that “forms when supercooled water liquid droplets freeze onto surfaces”.…

  • Lennon Tool Bar Winter Bamboo Shoots on Maruman Mnemosyne

    Lennon Tool Bar Winter Bamboo Shoots on Maruman Mnemosyne

    Ink Winter Bamboo Shoots is from the Winter 2019 limited edition series. The ink is an olive green colour with a wet flow. Before using it, I thought I would dislike this colour. But as I wrote with it, I found that it was an acceptable colour for writing. Not that I fell in love…

  • Lennon Tool Bar Winter Bamboo Shoots on Tsubame

    Lennon Tool Bar Winter Bamboo Shoots on Tsubame

    Ink Winter Bamboo Shoots is from the Winter 2019 limited edition series. The ink is an olive green colour with a wet flow. Before using it, I thought I would dislike this colour. But as I wrote with it, I found that it was an acceptable colour for writing. Not that I fell in love…

  • Lennon Tool Bar Saira on World Craft Freiheit

    Lennon Tool Bar Saira on World Craft Freiheit

    Ink Saira is the name of the 2019 Autumn Limited Series. Saira is the scientific name of the Pacific saury fish. On the bottle label, there is another name – 秋刀魚 – which is the Japanese name. In Mandarin, the words literally translates to “autumn knife fish”. I’ve always thought 秋刀魚 to be a beautiful…

  • Lennon Tool Bar Winter Bamboo Shoots on Muji

    Lennon Tool Bar Winter Bamboo Shoots on Muji

    Ink Winter Bamboo Shoots is from the Winter 2019 limited edition series. The ink is an olive green colour with a wet flow. Before using it, I thought I would dislike this colour. But as I wrote with it, I found that it was an acceptable colour for writing. Not that I fell in love…

  • Lennon Tool Bar Verdant on Muji Planting Tree

    Lennon Tool Bar Verdant on Muji Planting Tree

    Ink Verdant is from the Spring 2020 limited edition series. The ink is an unsaturated green with a tinge of yellow. This ink has a wet flow. On Muji paper, Writing Sample This was written with a TWSBI ECO-T medium nib. Below are a couple of photos of how it looks when it was written…

  • Lennon Tool Bar Celastrina Sugitanii Shirozui on Maruman Mnemosyne

    Lennon Tool Bar Celastrina Sugitanii Shirozui on Maruman Mnemosyne

    Ink This ink was part of the Spring 2020 limited edition. It was named after the Celastrina Sugitanii Shirozui butterfly found in Taiwan. “杉谷琉灰蝶” is the Chinese name of the butterfly and it is also printed on the bottle label. It is a pretty long name for a small butterfly that grows up to 1.4cm…

  • Lennon Tool Bar Egret Paper

    Lennon Tool Bar Egret Paper

    I was curious when Lennon Tool Bar launched their Egret paper last year and bought a pack to try. The papers are 65gsm, plain white in colour and available in A4 or A5 sizes. At first the Egret paper is only available in a pack of loose papers but now you can also get the…

  • Lennon Tool Bar Hard Rime on Leuchtturm1917

    Lennon Tool Bar Hard Rime on Leuchtturm1917

    Ink This ink colour was inspired by the look of hard rime freezing on the leaves of coniferous trees. Having spent all my life in a place without seasons, I have no idea what hard rime means. From Wikipedia, rime is a type of ice that “forms when supercooled water liquid droplets freeze onto surfaces”.…