Swirled Venetian Glass Pen

This limited edition, hand-made Swirled Glass Pen from Venice, Italy (known throughout the world for its glass blowing guilds) is beautifully packaged with a glass bottle of ink in a decorative box. Made with true Venetian craftsmanship, each pen features crystal-clear glass contrasted with a dramatic, richly-hued swirl. Not only is it lovely to admire� it also happens to be a wonderful writing tool, perfect for fine handwriting and calligraphy.

As functional as it is beautiful, each pen tip has fine grooves that act as capillaries to form an ink reservoir. Just a single dip in the inkwell will provide enough ink to last a third of a page. A labor of love, writing with this hand-blown glass pen produces a remarkably delicate and elegant penmanship that allows you to fall into the relaxing rhythm of crafting readable art, word by word. The final presentation is a written page or note with a distinctive, personal look that will mesmerize and captivate with its old-world symmetry and detail. Make your own personal statement today.

Size - Length 7.25 inches

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About Venetian Glass
Put your thoughts on paper using the tradition of the past with these hand-blown Venetian glass pens. Reaching its height of popularity in the U.S. during the 1920s, before the advent of the fountain pen, the glass pen remains a staple for time-honored correspondence.

First developed on the island of Murano in 1700 for the purpose of letter-writing and record-keeping, the glass pen is now considered one of the great Venetian traditions with a story that is steeped in secrecy. As legend has it, the artisan glassblowers were considered among the most important of all the Venetian trades. So much so the glassblowing guilds were isolated on the island of Murano, just off the coast of Venice. During the Middle Ages, each guild made sure to safeguard its methods and techniques, as imparting the secrets of glassblowing to foreigners was a crime punishable by death. To this day, the traditional glassblowing methods - which continue to use furnaces whose structures have remained unaltered for more than 1,000 years - remain guarded family secrets that are passed from father to son generation after generation. Create your own family tradition today with a hand-made Venetian glass calligraphy pen.

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