Category: Lennon Tool Bar

  • Lennon Tool Bar Verdant on Midori MD

    Lennon Tool Bar Verdant on Midori MD

    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 Midori MD paper, Shading: Yes Sheen: Nil Feathering: Nil Bleedthrough: Nil Writing Sample This was written with a TWSBI ECO-T medium nib. Below are a couple of…

  • Lennon Tool Bar Shuise on Rhodia

    Lennon Tool Bar Shuise on Rhodia

    Ink Shuise is an ink from Lennon Tool Bar’s Indigo Series. The Chinese words on the label, “水色”, literally means the colour of water. Supposedly the inspiration behind this colour came about during a trip to the cloth market to buy light blue fabric. I find this ink to be too light to use for…

  • Lennon Tool Bar Saira on Rhodia

    Lennon Tool Bar Saira on Rhodia

    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 Hard Rime on Tomoegawa Tomoe River

    Lennon Tool Bar Hard Rime on Tomoegawa Tomoe River

    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 Ganlan on Leuchtturm1917

    Lennon Tool Bar Ganlan on Leuchtturm1917

    Ink Lennon Tool Bar is a Taiwanese company founded in 2014. Their focus is on producing and promoting the craft of indigo dying. Then they started producing fountain pen inks, and were known for their beautiful blue inks. Ganlan is an ink from Lennon Tool Bar’s Indigo Series. On Shigure Inks website, it is described…

  • Lennon Tool Bar Saira on Muji Planting Tree

    Lennon Tool Bar Saira on Muji Planting Tree

    Brand Lennon Tool Bar is a Taiwanese company founded in 2014. Their focus is on producing and promoting the craft of indigo dying. Then they started producing fountain pen inks, and were known for their beautiful blue inks. Ink Saira is the name of the 2019 Autumn Limited Series. Saira is the scientific name of…

  • Lennon Tool Bar Nahu on Leuchtturm1917

    Lennon Tool Bar Nahu on Leuchtturm1917

    Brand Lennon Tool Bar is a Taiwanese company founded in 2014. Their focus is on producing and promoting the craft of indigo dying. Then they started producing fountain pen inks, and were known for their beautiful blue inks. Ink Nahu is an ink from Lennon Tool Bar’s Indigo Series. During the Edo bakufu (also known…

  • Lennon Tool Bar Yundoumuhua on Tomoegawa Tomoe River

    Lennon Tool Bar Yundoumuhua on Tomoegawa Tomoe River

    Ink Lennon Tool Bar is a Taiwanese company founded in 2014. Their focus is on producing and promoting the craft of indigo dying. Then they started producing fountain pen inks, and were known for their beautiful blue inks. Yundoumuhua is an ink from Lennon Tool Bar’s Indigo Series. What I find fascinating is that depending…

  • Lennon Tool Bar Celastrina Sugitanii Shirozui on Leuchtturm1917

    Lennon Tool Bar Celastrina Sugitanii Shirozui on Leuchtturm1917

    Ink Lennon Tool Bar is a Taiwanese company founded in 2014. Their focus is on producing and promoting the craft of indigo dying. Then they started producing fountain pen inks, and were known for their beautiful blue inks. This ink was part of the Spring 2020 limited edition ink named after the Celastrina Sugitanii Shirozui…

  • Lennon Tool Bar Shuise on Muji Planting Tree

    Lennon Tool Bar Shuise on Muji Planting Tree

    Ink Lennon Tool Bar is a Taiwanese company founded in 2014. Their focus is on producing and promoting the craft of indigo dying. Then they started producing fountain pen inks, and were known for their beautiful blue inks. Shuise is an ink from Lennon Tool Bar’s Indigo Series. The Chinese words the label, “水色”, literally…