Dagan Prusky sat outside the Sebastopol farmers market for the first time last year, a kid with just a table and a few homemade pens for sale. Fourteen years old at the time, Dagan became the market’s ...

Most of the pens are made from wood that's at least three-quarter-inch by three-quarter-inch by 6 inches. He drills a hole through the center of two pieces, inserts and glues a brass tube to hold the ...

New York-based novelist Amitav Ghosh recently ordered a fountain pen from an artisanal maker in India. "The last time I looked at his online list, it said my order would be ready in 95 weeks," the ...