Learn how to make quill ink from beets and a quill pen from a single feather in this comprehensive tutorial. ... Old-Time Country Wisdom & Lore For Hearth And Home.

A.J. Jacobs has been writing with an old-fashioned quill for a year. He argues they allow for slower, more contemplative thinking. Writer A.J. Jacobs wrote his manuscript using a quill and ink ...

As the quill pen evolved into the ... a quill pen made from a goose feather. This one is about 200 years old. ... flattened on its end to smooth the paper surface after scratching ink from it.

Quill pens were generally made from the five outer feathers of a goose or swan’s wing. The end of the feather was shaped to a point, with the hollow shaft of the feather serving as an ink reservoir ...

Pretty soon, Johnny was writing his first ever handwritten letter, to his mom, penned with a feather quill and ink. “Basically, [I wrote] I love you mom,” Johnny said. RELATED: Seattle’s ...