Second cousin of the famous writer Ernest Hemingway, Nicholas Hemingway has unveiled his latest creation in the form of the 2 mm Ebony clutch pencil. “A bespoke pencil made from reclaimed Ebony.

The whole point of a mechanical pencil is to have perfect sharpness forever. Yet without precise engineering and build quality, the standard slender leads are doomed to constant breakages. This ...

These pencils weren’t made for writing. At least not the 20,000 assorted ones that Bilal Asif has collected and neatly stacked in air-tight boxes. They serve a greater purpose: to be modelled into ...