One praises the feeling of writing, the other the experience the aesthetics: anyone who thinks the computer has replaced writing with a fountain pen is wrong. Fountain pens are popular and ink companies are increasingly experimenting with new colors. How does a fountain pen work? What is the secret of good ink? And should you never lend your fountain pen to someone else?
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- Host:
- Gemma Venhuizen
- Guests:
- Ellen de Bruin and Karel Knip
- Editorial and assembly:
- Rosa van Toledo
- Photo:
- Merlin Doomernik
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