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What We Did On Our Holidays - Vindolanda
Or What Have The Romans Ever Done For Us?* Or Cult Pens Finds An Interesting Pen In An Unlikely Place As keen readers of our newsletter know we popped up to Newcastle in May to watch Amanda's Rugby League team, Widnes Vikings, get thrashed beaten by ......Read More
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Michael's Paper Republic Notebook Cover
I've been tempted by the idea of a 'Traveler's Notebook' for a long time. They always look beautiful, and it's a nice simple idea. I'd drifted away from using notebooks much in the last few years, which reduced the temptation a bit, and each version ......Read More
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Widnes Vikings at the Magic Weekend
Cult Pens is ridiculously proud to be sponsoring the Widnes Vikings Rugby League team at the upcoming Magic Weekend on May 20th/May 21st in Newcastle. As you may or may not be aware, Devon - where we're based - isn't exactly a hotbed for Rugby League, ......Read More
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Journaling
It was probably at some point last year that we noticed our pads and journals/notebooks with a dot-grid pattern were getting increasingly popular. The term 'bullet journaling' was bandied around, but to be honest, we didn't take too much notice. We were busy trying to ......Read More
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Cult Pens Creative Column: Calligraphy
Hi, my name’s Louise. And I’m a stationeryholic. I also work as a Customer Service Advisor here at Cult Pens which is a pretty good job with lovely customers, and a great team, not to mention the pens! The ink! The paper! I’m surrounded by ......Read More
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Balls and Ball-tipped Pens
China and Ballpoint Pens There were news stories recently that China had finally cracked a problem that had eluded them for a long time: being able to make ballpoint pens. It sounds odd, because China is well-known for churning out lots of ballpoint pens, but the story ......Read More
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Review of 2016
2016 was quite a year for us. Let's face it, it was quite a year for most people really! At Cult Pens we had some wins, some setbacks, and some setbacks that turned out in hindsight to be blessings. That's business. Despite the various dramas, ......Read More
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J Herbin Scented Inks
Your sense of smell is incredibly evocative, probably more so than any of the other four senses. Random scents can conjure up long-buried memories; they can make you smile with pleasure (newly-baked bread, fresh coffee), or wrinkle your nose in disgust. Some - like petrol, ......Read More
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Meet Michael - Ten Years at Cult Pens
In May last year, we celebrated 10 years of Cult Pens - 10 years since the online shop sprouted in the back room of a small stationery shop in Dartmouth, and took over a corner of the internet. I was sitting in another corner, nearby, ......Read More
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Pilot - iPad Air Competition
Would air-neebody like to win a 32GB iPad Air 2? Yes Good, because Pilot have generously donated one to us to give away to a lucky customer. Spend £25 on Pilot products from now until 16th December and we'll automatically enter you into the draw ......Read More
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Platinum Snow Globe Competition
We have six beautiful Platinum snow globes to give away. Spend £100 on Platinum from now until 16th December and we'll automatically put you into the draw to win one of them. The Platinum #3776 Great Lakes series of limited edition fountain pens, celebrating the five ......Read More
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Kaweco - Big Brother Competition
The Big Brother has nothing to do with relatives, George Orwell's 1984 or reality TV. It is, in fact, an ENORMOUS Kaweco fountain pen, the sort the BFG might appreciate. You can't actually use it to write with, but you could hang it from the ......Read More
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Fountain Pen Day 2016
Fountain Pen Day is a day to embrace, promote and share the use of fountain pens. It's on the first Friday each November, which makes it November the 4th this year. It's a good excuse to talk about fountain pens, either in person, or on ......Read More
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Great Ormond Street Hospital - the Cult Pens Christmas Appeal 2016
Everybody knows of Great Ormond Street Hospital. it's a rock to cling to in a stormy sea, a bit of light in a dark room. It is, quite simply, the best place to be if you're not very big and not very well. Founded in ......Read More
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Cult Pens Architecture Prize 2016
Once again Cult Pens sponsored the aptly-named 'Cult Pens Award' - a prize for Dr Manuel Cresciani's architecture students at Northumbria University. As before, the students were challenged with creating a series of six visions of a chosen street in such a way that viewers ......Read More
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Derwent Competition - Win a Weekend Break
Picture the scene: green hills, grey crags, blue water and white puffy sheep. You're in the Lake District, and you're there courtesy of Derwent, one of the world's leading brands when it comes to artists' materials. You could go for a stroll, embark on a ......Read More
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Derwent Inktense Creative Morning
Cult Pens Get Inktensely Messy! We don't just sit around answering the phone or writing newsletters or wandering around the warehouse picking orders, you know. Oh no. Sometimes we spread the Tiverton Gazette over the meeting room table, dish out some Derwent and get arty (well ......Read More
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Pentel's 70th Anniversary
What do Dolly Parton, Joanna Lumley and Steven Spielberg have in common? Well not a great deal, it must be said, apart from the fact that they are the same age - yes, 70! - as Pentel, one of the most recognisable pen brands in ......Read More
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Old Favourites Return - the Jotter and Silvine Notebooks
Two classic designs that will bring back memories for many of us - the Parker Jotter and the Silvine Notebook. The Jotter has been around since 1954, and while it wasn't the first ballpoint pen, it quickly became one of the most popular, with over 750 ......Read More
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Cult Pens Visits Derwent
Scafell Pike, Herdwick sheep, Beatrix Potter, Donald Campbell's Bluebird, Lake Windermere, Alfred Wainwright, Kendal Mint Cake, William Wordsworth, Swallows and Amazons. Just a few of the diverse reasons why you might be familiar with the beautiful area of north-west England known as the Lake District. ......Read More
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ACME Studio
"Beep, beep." For those of you old enough to remember, ACME featured heavily in Wile E Coyote's arsenal in his ongoing battle against the Road Runner, usually featuring some device that didn't work, or did work, but not in the way he wanted. Ironically, 'acme' ......Read More
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Kuretake Demo Day
While we look forward to the lovely people who bring our bacon butties on a Monday morning, most visitors to Cult Pens tend to be couriers, the Royal Mail, lorries containing vast rolls of bubble-wrap or lost people with pick-ups looking for Jewson. So we ......Read More
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Cross 21st Century
Staggeringly, over 100 million (yes, million) Cross Classic Centuries have been sold in the last 70 years. Quite an achievement; they must be doing something right! To celebrate, and also to commemorate 170 years of Cross innovation, they have created the extremely special 21st Century ......Read More
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Start Bay Notebooks - For The Adventure
Start Bay notebook covers - as the names suggests if you're familiar with the West Country - are made on the south coast of Devon. They're leathery (very leathery) and tough (very tough) and really nice. They are the vision of Peter Cattermole, and are hand-made ......Read More
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Jessica Palmer
Jessica Palmer produces the sort of art that - if you're a talentless twit such as myself - makes you really wish you could draw. So it's a good job that colouring books for adults is an avenue into which she's ventured, because at least ......Read More
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Derwent Art Prize 2016
The 2016 Derwent Art Prize is currently open for entries, but not for very much longer - the closing date is the 1st of June. There's £12,500 in prizes up for grabs, with £6000 going to the first prize winner. Eighty of the works submitted ......Read More
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Staedtler Breaks the World Record
It's been almost 15 years since 'Record Breakers' last aired, even longer since the late great Roy Castle and the McWhirter brothers were its hosts, and longer still (60 years!) since the first publication of the Guinness Book of World Records. But records are still ......Read More
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Win a BAFTA Nominee Gift Bag with Cross
Buy any Cross products from us for the chance to win a BAFTA nominee gift bag - the same set of luxury gifts given out to the stars attending the BAFTA Awards, including a Cross Apogee Medalist fountain pen. Competition closes 19th February 2016. Entry form ......Read More
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Review of the Year 2015
Well, where on earth did that year go? After a full-on 2014 completely rebuilding our website and computer systems we were planning on a calm, quiet 2015. In the event it was relatively calm, but definitely not quiet. During 2015 we added lots of new brands ......Read More