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QuillQuill Quill Writing instrument made from a feather For other uses, see Quill (disambiguation). A quill is a writing tool made from a moulted flight feather (preferably a primary wing-feather) of a large bird. Quills were used for writing with ink before the invention of the dip pen/metal-nibbed pen, the fountain pen, and, eventually, the ballpoint pen.[1] Ink bottle and quill This article needs additional citations for verification. (April 2016) Quill and a parchment As with the earlier reed pen (and later dip pen), a quill has no internal ink reservoir and therefore needs to periodically be dipped into an inkwell during writing. The hand-cut goose quill is rarely used by modern calligraphers, however, it is still the tool of… (Source: Wikipedia)
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