when it was made
No, a pen can be made from various materials e.g. a quill, metal, plastic, but not ink, the pen is filled with or dipped into ink prior to use.
They were laboriously written out with quill and ink.
Ink
In ink?
Early settlers and pioneers wrote with quill pens. Quill pens are made from a flight feather from a large bird.
They are called quill pens
Both a pen and a quill are writing instruments, but a pen typically uses ink cartridges or refills while a quill is made from a bird's feather and needs to be dipped in ink. Pens are more modern and convenient, while quills provide a historical and ceremonial feel to writing.
No: They still had quill pens.... sharpened quill feathers dipped in ink.
a quill pen has mor ink than a biro
The father of the fountain pen, a quill is a feather with the end sharpened to form a 'nib' An inkwell is... well... a little pot of ink. Dipping the quill into it will draw some ink up inside the feather which runs down the sharpened nib as you write.
A drawing quill is a kind of pen that is dipped into ink before used to make line drawings or to write letters. It is called a quill because the earliest of these pens were made from the feathers of ducks, pheasants, etc ...