The Pilot Parallel Pen is a remarkable and durable tool that offers crisp edges, sharp hairlines and a totally reliable, smooth flow of ink for beginners and seasoned lettering artists. In a typical dip or cartridge pen, ink travels through one or more slits in the nib and feeds across the writing edge.  Skipping (non-delivery of the ink) can occur, particularly in larger pens. The parallel pen has a totally different construction. Ink flows between two layers of metal lying on top of each other, delivering ink to the entire writing edge without fail. Turn the pen on its corner and the pen writes a .5mm monoline -great for your handwriting, flourishing (till your arm gets tired!), making high contrast thin strokes (see K. Malmsten’s outlined alphabet upper right) and pen manipulation. You can also blend colors by touching the writing edge of one pen to a second pen loaded with a complementary color.

Choose 1.5mm, 2.4mm, 3.8mm, or 6.0mm.  Each Pen comes with 1 red and 1 black cartridge and a bladder/converter, $17.95 ea. 2 or more, $16.95 each.

Parallel Pen Wizardry by Brenda Broadbent.  Our Parallel Pen Wizardry Book begins where Pilot's excellent instructions for each Parallel Pen end. In these pages you'll find cartridge tips & tricks, instructions for using other inks (acrylics, watercolor, gouache), writing & drawing possibilities (monoline & flourishes, high contrast thicks & thins, color blending, the effect of paper, expressive & experimental examples), writing on fabric, comments from teachers, a gallery of examples, a Gothicized Italic alphabet from Sheila Waters, Gothic Alphabets by Ward Dunham and an Uncial alphabet by Gina Jonas. Examples for all these ideas came from the hands of this stunning group of contributors: Judy Melvin, Martha Ericson, Judith Angelo, Suzanne Moore, Alice Koeth, Carol Pallesen, Sara Frank, Mike Gold, Gale Barbieri, Collene Kalb, Stephen Rapp and Victoria Pittman. You'll discover lots of techniques but don't miss Gale Barbieri's experiments with loading Duo Embellishing Adhesive into the pen barrel and covering her crisp writing with metallic foils, PearlEx and ultra fine glitters. Gale also discovered that Dr. Martin's liquid watercolor Hydrus has the perfect consistency for the pen as well as the lightfast qualities of fine watercolor. Profusely illustrated! 8.5"x11", 24 pp., full color.

Set of  four pens (with 2 cartridges per pen) and a pack of 12 cartridges- one each of 12 colors. INCLUDES 1.5, 2.4, 3.8, 6.0mm pens.

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Pilot Cartridges are water-soluble, brilliant, easy flowing and blendable colors but are not lightfast.  For other ink ideas see the tips on this page and page 9 which were taken from the Parallel Pen Wizardry book. This pen can be used with lightfast and waterproof fluids and, therefore, can be used for permanent work.  Pack of 6 cartridges, all one color.  Choose Colors: Black,Blue-Black, Sepia, Violet, Blue, Turquoise, Green, Light Green, Yellow, Orange, Red, Pink

6 cartridges of each of 12 colors (72 cartridges total).

NEW 1mm size – Just right for envelope work! We’ve had lots of requests for a smaller Parallel Pen and are happy to announce a 1mm pen, hand cut for us in the US by a master craftsman. Try this new size to give you more options with the terrific Parallel Pen design. (You will notice that your 1mm pen’s package was opened so that we could cut your nib and that we have marked your custom cut pen with its new size.) Comes with 1 red and 1 black cartridge and a bladder converter.

Add 1mm Parallel to any Parallel Set

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4 PENS, 72 CARTRIDGES AND BOOK!