Perhaps we’re biased, but there’s a unique beauty to drawing pencils that isn’t matched by your everyday writing pencil. Usually painted in a pleasing color and embossed with their name and grade, ...

A class of fifth-graders from Green Acres Elementary in Lebanon, Ore., asked us to find out how pencil lead is made. That quest took us all the way back to the dawn of the universe and then all the ...

They look like pieces of art — they’re quite decorative, sitting on a desk as such — but the small hand-carved objects serve another purpose. They work as pencils. The graphite sculptures, produced by ...

A batch of graphite has just been delivered to this pencil factory in Germany. Once it’s been thoroughly mixed with clay, it’s ready to go into production, with around 550 pounds of the stuff making ...

Sharpie, the renowned pen maker, has introduced an innovative twist on the traditional pencil with their new product: the Sharpie Liquid Pencil. This unique writing instrument contains an “ink” made ...

TICONDEROGA — A giant sculpture of six Dixon Ticonderoga No. 2 yellow pencils that were once sourced in Ticonderoga was unveiled before an applauding crowd Thursday at the Ticonderoga Heritage Museum ...