Always wondered how to make a homemade quill pen and ink? Learn how to make quill ink from beets and a quill pen from a single feather in this comprehensive tutorial.

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Copp family used these quill pens in their home in Stonington, Connecticut during the 18th and 19th century. Quill ...

Bowmansville writer Linda Oatman High to receive the prestigious PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship.

I’m not going to lie, I don’t really need to know how to cut and make a quill pen from a goose feather. No one does anymore. But! I was completely fascinated by the process of it. It’s funny ...

LITTLE ROCK — Images of Shakespeare often show him with a feather in his hand — for light comedy? No, the quill pen was the word processor of Shakespeare’s day. He wrote with a sharpened ...

Now make diagonal slits on both sides of the feather, pictures 10 and 11. To make a bow: two-fold 1-inch long, 1cm wide piece of paper and cut in leaf shape, picture 12.

Simple hairy filaments coat much of the body, larger veined feathers stick out from the tail, and big quill-pen-feathers line the arms, layered over each other to form a wing.

On Sunday, they will attend a public ceremony featuring some very old technology — a feather quill pen, writing on a scroll — to mark the start of construction on Abacoa’s newest structure.

Wait, a quill pen? Like, with the big feather? It's awesome, just to imagine some Arizona football player writing notes in class looking like he's Benjamin Franklin.