{"id":4108,"date":"2013-07-22T15:41:54","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T20:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/office-ink.ontimesupplies.com\/?p=4108"},"modified":"2022-08-17T16:10:33","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T21:10:33","slug":"how-to-write-with-a-quill-pen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/how-to-write-with-a-quill-pen\/","title":{"rendered":"How to write with a quill pen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.google.com\/sorry\/index?continue=https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch%3Fv%3D_8lAstpEfi0&#038;q=EhAmADwAAAAAAPA8kf_-OlQIGMaT-4AGIhkA8aeDS90THoBcYa1ScpXHDd5XE0-D5invMgFy<br \/>\nJust because you aren&#8217;t a Founding Father or a student at Hogwarts doesn&#8217;t mean you can&#8217;t <strong>write with a quill pen<\/strong>. In a world of touchscreens and keyboards, learning <strong>how to write with a quill pen<\/strong> is fun hobby that doesn&#8217;t require any special calligraphy skills. <!--more-->NostalgicImpressions offers a great intro to writing with a quill pen \u00a0in the video above. The antique document reproducers at Sullivan Press offers \u00a0a couple more tips on <strong>how to write with a quill pen<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Keep a light hand<\/strong>: modern pens require a lot more pressure than quills. Keep the pressure light when you&#8217;re writing with a quill pen to avoid damaging your pen.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keep it steady<\/strong>: try not to lift your pen or change writing directions when writing with a quill pen &#8212; you&#8217;ll end up getting ink everywhere. Instead, imagine you are drawing a fine, continuous line.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Use smooth stationery<\/strong>: yeah, fancy textured <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/resume-stationery-paper.html?sort_by=best&amp;atbs%5BPaper%2520Finish%5D%5B%5D=Laid\"><strong>laid stationery paper<\/strong><\/a> looks awesome, but start out using plain old <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/resume-stationery-paper.html?sort_by=best&amp;atbs%5BPaper%2520Finish%5D%5B%5D=Smooth\">smooth stationery<\/a><\/strong> when learning how to write with a quill pen. It&#8217;s easier to maintain the light pressure needed for quills when you aren&#8217;t trying to write over the ridges and bumps of fancier stationery.You can play around with textured stationery once you&#8217;ve had some practice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can use anything from powdered calligraphy ink to widely available\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/higgins-waterproof-pigmented-drawing-inks.html\">India Inks<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0to write with a quill pen.\u00a0All you need is practice!<\/p>\n<p>Sources: Sullivan Press, NostalgicImpressions<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/paper-mate-flair-pens-pencils-free-prepaid-visa-gift-card-with-mail-in-rebate.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/paper-mate-flair-pens-mail-in-rebate-banners.png\" alt=\"Shop Paper Mate Pens &amp; Mechanical Pencils &amp; Get a FREE Prepaid Visa Gift Card with Mail in Rebate.\" width=\"615\" height=\"423\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just because you aren&#8217;t a Founding Father or a student at Hogwarts doesn&#8217;t mean you can&#8217;t write with a quill pen. In a world of touchscreens and keyboards, learning how to write with a quill pen is fun hobby that doesn&#8217;t require any special calligraphy skills. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-for-fun"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4108"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7797,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4108\/revisions\/7797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}