19 Friday Aug 2022
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The fountain pen community was shocked back in November 2015 when the Chinese company O-Luxe announced they were closing one of their brands, OMAS, with the doors finally being shut in January 2016. Later that year, out of the ashes, a phoenix rose. Scrittura Bolognese. October 2017 and the first ‘regular’ ScriBo pen was released. A store only collaboration with Write Here of Shrewsbury.
Continue reading12 Tuesday Jul 2022
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Aquamarine Ink, ink, Ink Review, SCRIBO, ScriBo Ink, ScriBo Verde Mediterraneo, Teal Ink, Verde Mediterraneo
Back when I reviewed Blu Capri I mentioned how it nicely represented the turquoise waters off the shore of the aforementioned island, well here we now have an aquamarine to represent the early evening waters around the Adriatic coast. Once more we have an interesting and appropriately coloured ink from Scrittura Bolognese.
Continue reading06 Wednesday Jul 2022
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Pomegranate, that sweet red fruit from around the Mediterranean, not just Southern Europe, but also North Africa and the Middle East. Mentioned through out history, its deep pink colour works well in the ScriBo line up who’s inks do not quite match the usual options provided as standard by other ink makers.
Continue reading29 Wednesday Jun 2022
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A legacy of using it too much at school in my teens, I generally find blue-black inks rather boring, but not all. The name Cosmico brings to mind night skies full of stars. Unsurprisingly this ink could be considered a match for the Feel A Riveder Le Stelle, which represented exactly that.
Continue reading22 Wednesday Jun 2022
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Brown Ink, Classico Sepia, ink, Ink Review, SCRIBO, Scribo Classico Sepia, ScriBo Ink, Sepia Ink
Sepia has been often used to describe a brown without any real agreement on what it should look like. Part of this is due to the origins being an extract from the defensive ink of the cuttlefish, after which it is named. Alas with one exception, real spepia can not be used in fountain pens else they will quickly clog up (the exception being produced by a small Japanese chemist and sold only through one small pen maker of renown). Not an issue for the Romans in the time when they were still a republic, but certainly one for us today. Instead we have safe inks using the name, and how appropriate it is for the name to be used by a brand based in a city which was around before Rome expanded beyond it’s city walls to conquer it.
Continue reading15 Wednesday Jun 2022
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ink, Ink Review, Notturno Viola, Purple Ink, SCRIBO, ScriBo Ink, ScriBo Notturno Viola, Violet Ink
This was the first of the additional inks to be added to the ScriBo line up. Notturno Viola matches the limited edition Feel Viola pen while adding a purple to the ink line up. Described by it’s maker as Mystic and Biting it certainly lends towards thoughts of witchcraft and Gothic horror.
Continue reading08 Wednesday Jun 2022
The brightness of this green ink reminds me of the spring. The sun shining off fresh grass and young leaves on trees while there is still a slight chill in the air. An ink for journalling an April walk perhaps.
Continue reading01 Wednesday Jun 2022
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Translating as Cinnamon Yellow, Scrittura Bolognese have provided us with a colour I would more associate with winter, partly due to the use of this spice in Europe over the darker months. One that should provide an inner warmth on a cold evening by the fire.
Continue reading27 Friday May 2022
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This review will really focus on the nib and gloss over on the pen. Until I started to put pen to paper (sounds better than key press to WordPress) I did not realise I am yet to review the ScriBo Write Here, despite it being the first mainstream offering from Scrittura Bologenese, and despite me buying one of the first editions just after this store exclusive arrived off the flight from Italy at the October 2017 London Pen Show. A more in depth review will follow, meanwhile this piece is all about the nib. A ScriBo stub. 1.4mm width of tipping on a rhodium plated nib with its heritage going back to the old OMAS days and made on the same machines.
Continue reading25 Wednesday May 2022
This blog, well the fountain pen part, came about partly through my interviewing Luca Baglione of Scrittura Bolognese over the launch of the Feel in October 2018, which had just occurred with the help of Write Here of Shrewsbury. It was being recorded by Penultimate Dave and between them I finally had my armed twisted enough to write my first piece. What does this have to do with Grigio SCRIBO? Well off the back of the interview I ordered one of the first Feel pens to be sold directly from ScriBo. This first batch, and just the ones sold through the maker, came with a 20ml bottle of a unnamed ScriBo ink which matched the corporate colours and the grey-blue pen I had just bought. This is this ink was a beautiful colour but also rather wet, however it was also running out. Over two years passed before ScriBo launched their ink range and amongst them was Grigio SCRIBO. The question must be, is it the same ink?
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