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 ...

Arts Mother Goose For more than 20 years, quill-pen-maker Nancy Floyd has kept the Supreme Court in fine feathers.

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.

No, the quill pen was the word processor of Shakespeare’s day. He wrote with a sharpened goose feather dipped in ink. On a splurge, he might have taken up a swan feather. (But not if he had to ...

This pen was invented around the 6 th century in Seville, Spain. Swan feathers were used in the high-quality quill pens while goose feathers were used in the average-quality quill pens.

Ancient Egyptians used reed writing tools that prefigured feather quill pens and, eventually, metal nibs. “Fountain pens were available before 1880, but they didn’t work.

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.

The sea pen resembles a feather quill pen and uses it's stalk and 'hook' to bury in sediment. The feathered top sticks out and captures food that drifts by and also pumps water.

Another Don Freeman story, Will's Quill, originally published in 1975, tells of a goose, Willoughby Waddle, who travels from the English countryside into London, ""startled to see so many people ...