Editing Pen (section)

===Historic===
These historic types of pens are no longer in common use as writing instruments, but may be used by calligraphers and other artists:
* A '''[[fountain pen]]''' uses water-based liquid ink delivered through a ''[[Nib (pen)|nib]]'', which is in general a flat piece of metal with a thin slit extending inwards from the writing tip.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lambrou |first=Andreas |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OL4tcAAACAAJ&q=fountain+pen |title=Fountain Pens: Vintage and Modern |date=1989 |publisher=Sotheby's Publications |isbn=978-0-85667-362-7 |language=en}}</ref> Driven by gravity, the ink flows from a reservoir to the nib through a ''feed'', which is in general a specially shaped solid block of material with channels and grooves cut into it. The feed delivers the ink to the slit in the nib. While writing, ink is pulled out of this slit by [[capillary action]]. A fountain pen nib, unlike the tip of a ballpoint, gel or rollerball pen, has no moving parts. A fountain pen reservoir can be refillable or disposable; the disposable type is called an ''ink cartridge''. A pen with a refillable reservoir may have a mechanism such as a [[piston]] to draw ink from a bottle through the nib, or it may require refilling with an [[eye dropper]]. Refillable reservoirs, also known as ''cartridge converters'', are available for some pens otherwise designed to use disposable cartridges. A fountain pen can be used with permanent or non-permanent inks.
* A '''[[dip pen]]''' (or ''[[nib (pen)|nib]] pen'') consists of a metal nib with capillary channels, like that of a fountain pen, mounted on a handle or holder, often made of wood. A dip pen is called such because it usually has no ink reservoir and must therefore be repeatedly dipped into an [[inkpot]] in order to recharge the nib with ink while drawing or writing. The dip pen has certain advantages over a fountain pen; it can use waterproof pigmented (particle-and-binder-based) inks, such as so-called ''[[India ink]]'', drawing ink, or acrylic inks, which would destroy a fountain pen by clogging, as well as the traditional [[iron gall ink]], which can cause corrosion in a fountain pen. Dip pens are now mainly used in illustration, [[calligraphy]], and comics. A particularly fine-pointed type of dip pen known as a ''crowquill'' is a favorite instrument of artists such as [[David Stone Martin]] and [[Jay Lynch]], because its flexible metal point can create a variety of delicate lines, textures and tones in response to variation of pressure while drawing.
* The '''[[ink brush]]''' is the traditional writing implement in East Asian calligraphy. The body of the brush can be made from bamboo, or from rarer materials such as red sandalwood, glass, ivory, silver, and gold. The head of the brush can be made from the hair (or feathers) of a wide variety of animals, including the weasel, rabbit, deer, chicken, duck, goat, pig, and tiger. There is also a tradition both in China and in Japan of making a brush using the hair of a newborn, as a once-in-a-lifetime souvenir for the child. This practice is associated with the legend of an ancient Chinese scholar who ranked first in the Imperial examinations using such a personalized brush. Calligraphy brushes are widely considered an extension of the calligrapher's arm. Today, calligraphy may also be done using a pen, but pen calligraphy does not enjoy the same prestige as traditional brush calligraphy.
* A '''[[quill]]''' is a pen made from a [[flight feather]] of a large bird, most often a [[goose]]. To make a quill, a feather must be [[Curing (chemistry)|cured]] through aging or [[Heat treating|heat-treatment]], after which a nib is fashioned from the shaft by cutting a slit in it and carving away the sides to create a pointed tip. With practice, suitable feathers can be made into quills quickly and cheaply using no more than a small knife and a source of heat. Due to their easy availability, quills remained the writing instruments of choice in the West for a long time—from the 6th century to the 19th—before the metal dip pen, the fountain pen, and eventually the ballpoint pen came to be manufactured in large numbers. Quills, like later metal-nibbed dip pens, must periodically be dipped in ink while writing.
* A '''[[reed pen]]''' is cut from a reed or bamboo, with a slit in a narrow tip. Its mechanism is essentially the same as that of a quill or a metal dip pen. The reed pen has almost disappeared but is still used by young school students in some parts of India and Pakistan, who learn to write with them on small timber boards known as "Takhti".<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Farah|first=Iffat|date=1991-10-01|title=School ka sabaq: Literacy in a girls' primary school in rural Pakistan|url=https://repository.upenn.edu/wpel/vol7/iss2/3|journal=Working Papers in Educational Linguistics |volume=7|issue=2|issn=1548-3134|access-date=2021-08-01|archive-date=2021-11-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211104183931/https://repository.upenn.edu/wpel/vol7/iss2/3/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* A '''paper pen''', invented by Nasima Akhtar in 2007 from [[Jessore|Jashore]], [[Bangladesh]], is an [[Environmentally friendly|eco-friendly]] writing instrument made from [[paper]]. These pens are biodegradable and contain seeds at their base, allowing them to be planted after use to grow into various plants.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rahman |first=Azibor |date=2023-07-22 |title=Paper pens that can also grow into plants! |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/news/paper-pens-can-also-grow-plants-3375276 |access-date=2024-06-07 |website=The Daily Star |language=en}}</ref>

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File:Dip Pen.jpg|A dip pen
File:Sumie.jpg|alt=Picture of an ink brush.|An ink brush
File:Quill pen.jpg|alt=Picture of a quill and a small bottle of ink on a table.|Quill and ink
File:Reed pen DSC 8999.jpg|alt=Picture of a reed pen.|A reed pen
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