The pocket-sized Piuma has a sleek round barrel and takes standard international cartridges. The Studio Fountain Pen is a modern take on a classic form from this small boutique maker based in the UK.

There’s nothing quite like using the best fountain pens to get your writing done. The whole experience is rewarding, from purchasing one and unpacking it, to using it for the first time.

Pens where orginally supplied to the UK from Canada until 1941 when some models where made in Newhaven. The factory closed in 2009. The Slimfold fountain pens (left) were sold in 4 colours {black ...

It’s a debate as old as time and has had the world’s finest intellectuals at war for years – what is better to write with, fountain pens or ballpoint pens? Okay, maybe it’s not that ...

The promise all good fountain pens deliver—be they expensive or affordable—is that they make your handwriting better than you ever imagined. At the very least, they make handwriting more fun ...

This is One Thing, a column with tips on how to live. Growing up in Saudi Arabia, I learned cursive with a fountain pen in the third grade as part of the standard curriculum. I wasn’t good at ...

The promise all good fountain pens deliver—be they expensive or affordable—is that they make your handwriting better than you ever imagined. At the very least, they make handwriting more fun ...

TOTTORI--To order a custom-made fountain pen from Ryo Yamamoto, expect to wait 18 months for delivery. Yamamoto, 50, said he is overwhelmed with orders. Many of his clients are celebrities both ...

New York-based novelist Amitav Ghosh recently ordered a fountain pen from an artisanal maker in India. "The last time I looked at his online list, it said my order would be ready in 95 weeks," the ...