Quill
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A quill is a writing tool made from a moulted flight feather of a large bird. Quills were used for writing with ink before the invention of the dip pen/steel-nibbed pen, the fountain pen, and, eventua
Quill and a parchment
Ink bottle and quill
A nib cut from a bird's quill
Feathers in stages of being made into quills
Reed pen
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A reed pen or bamboo pen is a writing implement made by cutting and shaping a single reed straw or length of bamboo.
Quill
…for writing with ink before the invention of the dip pen/steel-nibbed pen, the fountain pen, and, eventually, the ballpoint pen. As with the earlier reed pen (and later dip pen), a quill has no internal ink reservoir and therefore needs to periodically be dipped into an inkwell during writing. The hand-cut…
The inkstained cut tips of reed pens
Varying diameters
Egyptian reed pens inside ivory and wooden palettes, the Louvre
Three views of a narrow tip