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I have been playing with the idea to open an Ink Bar for sometime now. Only it is not very practical to organise when we have over 350 colours of ink.  The Diest Supermercado Festival seemed a very nice start to try out an "Australian Ink Bar ". Seventy five colours of the Robert Oster Signature inks will be available for the public to try them out. And not only as a writing ink. We"ll have all kind of tools ready to colour the world into a Australian scenery. Perhaps I may convice somebody to write again ... 

By the way, the theme for the Supermercado this year is ... "Argentina". I was thinking : both countries start with an "A" so nobody will notice ;o).  

After eight months finaly in the house the Nakaya Nuno Kise Honkataji in an arai shu colour. Half mat brown-orange-vermillion colour which will enlighten with time. The intentional "crack" refers to worn negoro nuri lacquerware. 

Our Pelikan collection starts with the Special Edition Pelikan 800 Renaissance Brown. An ode to the Renaissance painting. A ballpoint and fountain pen with mother-of-pearl effects in a warm brown acrylic with refined nuances of light and dark. What more could you wish for ? Available from this moment on. Do not hesitate, when they're gone they're gone !

The Wahl-Eversharp DecoBand, the Doric and the Skyline belonged to the most popular American writing instruments of the 1920’s, 30’s and 40’s. In 1992 Syd Saperstein, expert in vintage Wahl-Eversharp pens, reintroduced the brand with new Decoband pens. Not vintage but larger and better then before !

New in the LIFE section are the lovely Tsubame Tokyo Skytree notebooks in B5 and A5 size. We added also the LIFE Red Bank Paper. A lot to discover !