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Colleen, a company we’ve mentioned before, makes double ended colour pencils – in round, hexagonal, and triangular shapes! Offerings like these bode well for Colleen. The Colleen Pencil Company probably isn’t well known as a major manufacturer by most readers of this blog. Ditto here. The company first came to my awareness via photos in the Pencils book from Marco Ferreri. Colleen’s Woods Pencils displayed a fantastic appreciation of the pencil, transforming a two century old manufacturing process with artistic [...] While red and blue pencils are a sublime and beautiful example of the pencil maker’s art, other colour leads can be combined though the same process for an amazing result. Colleen is a company we’ve mentioned many times. With leadership from a former manager of Japan’s now defunct Colleen Pencil Co., the revived company in [...] Regular readers will know the name “Colleen”. Formerly a major Japanese manufacturer, the firm folded a decade or so ago. The Colleen Woods series represents an exciting vision of woodcase pencil manufacturing. The series is also a profoundly simple and beautiful pencil set. Pencils have been made from cedar for a century or more, and more recently from jelutong, pulai, and basswood. Pine and fir have also been used. Yet – out of thousands of global [...] The Colleen Pencil Company of Japan met a sad demise about a decade ago. Highly esteemed by pencil users, their products were known for very high quality and innovation. Kero556’s Colleen pencil blog is a testament to the bond that Colleen created with their users. |
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