{"id":2345,"date":"2024-02-11T09:31:55","date_gmt":"2024-02-11T17:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=2345"},"modified":"2024-02-11T09:31:55","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T17:31:55","slug":"writing-fountain-pens-crimson-violet-theme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2024\/02\/11\/writing-fountain-pens-crimson-violet-theme\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing: Fountain Pens (Crimson-Violet Theme)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"999\" height=\"999\" src=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/aeg-noodlerskonradfc.jpg\" alt=\"collage of four views of a red and violet Noodlers Ink fountain pen in &quot;Forbidden City&quot; design atop handwriting in Noodler's Burgundy ink\" class=\"wp-image-2346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/aeg-noodlerskonradfc.jpg 999w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/aeg-noodlerskonradfc-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/aeg-noodlerskonradfc-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/aeg-noodlerskonradfc-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/aeg-noodlerskonradfc-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Views of my new red and violet Noodlers Ink fountain pen in &#8220;Forbidden City&#8221; design atop handwriting in Noodler&#8217;s Burgundy ink<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I am continuing to love Goulet&#8217;s stub nibs in various pens &#8211; the nib lays down so much ink! The verticals are so thick! The nib is smooth, and makes for a pleasant writing experience.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The topic of my writing when I made this first collage was more private than I could show in full, so I&#8217;ve waited for muted daylight to photograph a less sensitive writing sample.  <em>(Note that it remains very difficult to use an iPhone to show off ink colors unless you get far away: the phone increases contrast automatically, and so most of my close up images appear to be black.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"999\" height=\"999\" src=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/AEG-Noodlers-burgundy.jpg\" alt=\"Three image collage showing Noodler's Burgundy ink samples, written on dot grid paper with a stub nib Noodler's Konrad fountain pen.\" class=\"wp-image-2351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/AEG-Noodlers-burgundy.jpg 999w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/AEG-Noodlers-burgundy-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/AEG-Noodlers-burgundy-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/AEG-Noodlers-burgundy-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/AEG-Noodlers-burgundy-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Noodler&#8217;s Burgundy ink collage of three images in muted lighting on a cloudy day.  iPhones increase contrast, making the ink appear darker in close ups.  The lower right image writing sample displays the ink color most accurately. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve historically found Noodler&#8217;s inks to be too wet for my pens (it drips!), but this one flows so nicely from their own pen on Rhodia paper that I may change my mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am continuing to love Goulet&#8217;s stub nibs in various pens &#8211; the nib lays down so much ink! The verticals are so thick! The nib is smooth, and makes for a pleasant writing experience. The topic of my writing when I made this first collage was more private than I could show in full, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2024\/02\/11\/writing-fountain-pens-crimson-violet-theme\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Writing: Fountain Pens (Crimson-Violet Theme)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[254],"tags":[253,163],"class_list":["post-2345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collecting","tag-fountain-pen","tag-ink"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2345"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2352,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345\/revisions\/2352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}