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I found this after removing a load of clothes from the washing machine this morning. I have excluded it being any part of a pen or pencil. I just cannot figure it out. Thanks in advance for your help. It feels important. It measures a little over an inch long and about 2mm wide at the outer diameter. The interior is 1mm wide. There is a knurled line texture down one side and the rest is smooth.

Pennonia - Hajnal (Dawn)

Majohn P136 with Majohn Flex Nib

Southworth 25% Cotton Professional Stationery

Swatches were done with Zebra G dio nib and 3mm Brause Ornament dip nib on Strathmore 25% cotton professional stationery paper.

I love this bag. It is not sashiko, but I have found many similar bags that are embellished with sashiko. I'm fairly certain it is Japanese. I found it years ago in a little shop in San Francisco (I don't' remember where). It has lasted so well that it looks the same as when I originally acquired it. I seems that it is made of boro boro fabrics as well as a few pieces of ikat, etc. Would anyone here be able to help me understand this bag? What is it called in Japan? How old do the fabrics look? I would appreciate any information that you could provide. Thank you in advance.

I am not a fan of 95% of the Noodler's inks I've tried. Most are unsaturated colors which behave very badly on all paper, in my experience. However, there are a handful of Noodler's inks which are fantastic. My top three are this Roses In the Louvre, Black Swan in Australian Roses, and Kuprin. I have not found another deep red-pink that I like better than Roses in the Louvre. It even has some subtle shading.

I keep waiting. But every summer, she still runs like a top...

Platinum 3776 pen bodies are often garbage, but the nibs are great. Procyon nibs are blah but the pens are great. Since many of us are doing this Procyon/3776 Frankenpen thing anyway, I wonder why they don't sell it this way? The Procyon is super comfortable and airtight (writes on the first stroke even after stored inked and unused for months), with a high quality sturdy body. With a plethora of cracking issues to many of the plastics used in the 3776, it would make sense to me that Platinum should just settle it by selling a pen like this. Just my unsolicited opinion.

I found these wonderful photos at an estate sale yesterday. I'm always stunned when I see things like this tossed away with no one interested in preserving them. There were boxes of framed family photos and dozens of stacks of photos. It makes me sad in a way.