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Autumn Glow

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Autumn Glow

As Autumn arrives and the colours of the season change, we have brought together a selection of glowing yellows, oranges and browns that we stock. We hope you will find something to match your Autumn journaling or your the calligraphy masterpieces you have been hoping to do or the the artwork you are inspired to create. Perhaps, like us you sometimes want to try something new. We have a selection of glorious shimmer and non-shimmer inks - from the hand-crafted Kiwi Liquid Copper and Gold, from California to the warm orange-yellow of Sailor Yamabuki, from Japan. From Germany, we have included...

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The Nanosphere

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The Nanosphere

Izumi Pens were very excited to be mentioned in the Nanosphere's March newsletter! De Atramentis’s Heliogen Green-Copper was the star of the show as an more quirky option to a plain green ink to clebrate St Patricks day. The Nanosphere is a fantastic stationary newsletter sent out every Wednesday. It is full of new and interesting stationary products. To sign up visit their website.  

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New stock, stickers and destinations

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New stock, stickers and destinations

Two great days of 'firsts'. Yesterday we received our first order of shimmering and sheening inks from Diamine - amazed how quickly they turned around the order. Today we delivered our first order  to the Netherlands, a beautiful sapphire blue TWSBI Eco and we were able to use our new Izumi Pen Company stickers on the packaging. G + F

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Starting Afresh

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Starting  Afresh with another platform.

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Where did the name Izumi Pens come from?

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Where did the name Izumi Pens come from?

What makes a good name for a new company? There were many ideas that came and went..some good, some definitely not so good.

The name Izumi is Japanese and means fountain or spring. The word fountain is of course very important to us as we sell fountain pens - Izumi Pens...fountain pens. (See what we did there.....)

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