Baytown, Texas
Kelly Regian's women-owned Ad-Centives on West Defee prints shirts and sources promotional goods — pens, branded apparel, technology accessories and trade-show pieces.
Best for Promotional products, branded apparel and event goods
Pens of United States
7 stores · curated ORBIS register
Visit official site ↗Two Hands Paperie
Hidden GemPearl Street, Boulder
Two Hands Paperie is a Pearl Street shop for fine paper, cards, journals, pens and bookbinding and art supplies, including imported and handmade sheets. It runs workshops in calligraphy, bookbinding and other paper crafts.
Best for Fine paper and art supplies
Visit official site ↗Fifth Avenue South, Naples, Florida
A fine stationer and gift shop on Fifth Avenue South in Naples, Florida, Arabesque offers custom wedding invitations, engraved papers, fountain pens, leather goods and gifts. Now past its twentieth year, it serves customers in-store and through an online stationery and gift storefront.
Best for Stationery, wedding invitations, gift shop, pens
Visit official site ↗Fahrney's Pens
Heritage HouseWashington, D.C. / United States
A century-old Washington, D.C. specialist for fine writing instruments, built on its original fountain pen repair trade.
Best for A century-old Washington, D.C. specialist for fine writing instruments
Fahrney's opened in Washington, D.C. in 1929 as a fountain pen repair shop, founded by Earl Fahrney at a moment — the eve of the Depression — when fixing a good pen was often the more sensible choice over buying a new one. The repair trade sustained the business through its early years before Fahrney expanded into selling new writing instruments, including what the shop's own history calls the then-"revolutionary" ballpoint pen. In 1950 the shop moved into the Willard Hotel on F Street, and took on the tagline it still uses today, "The Write Place."
Nearly a century later, Fahrney's is still on F Street NW, now inside the Willard InterContinental, a few blocks from the White House and the National Mall — one of the few American pen shops that can claim continuous operation, repair bench included, since before the Second World War. The current shop describes its selection as one of the country's largest for fine writing instruments, inks, paper, and accessories, with staff trained to help match a pen to a hand rather than simply ring up whatever is popular that season.
That repair-shop origin still shapes the business: a pen bought elsewhere can be brought in for service, and the shop's own marketing leans on "90-plus years of expert service" rather than any single house brand, because Fahrney's has always been a specialist retailer and repairer first, not a manufacturer.
Visit official site ↗Magazine Street
Scriptura specialises in fine paper, pens, invitations, cards and calligraphy materials on Magazine Street. Custom stationery services distinguish it from a general gift shop and make planning ahead worthwhile.
Best for Fine papers, pens, invitations, and calligraphy supplies in New Orleans
Visit official site ↗The Pleasure of Writing
Hidden GemCarmel-by-the-Sea
The Pleasure of Writing runs a boutique in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, stocking fountain pens from Montblanc, Pelikan, Visconti, Aurora and other makers. It also runs a dedicated marketplace where collectors can buy and sell fine writing instruments.
Best for Fountain pens for everyday writers and collectors
Visit official site ↗Grand Avenue, Saint Paul
Wet Paint has served Twin Cities artists on Grand Avenue in Saint Paul since 1976 as an independent art supply store, frame shop and classroom, celebrating its 50th anniversary with a Mini Watercolor Set. The store stocks fountain pens, watercolor sets, colored pencils and supplies from brands like Schmincke, TWSBI and Blackwing.
Best for Art supplies and custom framing
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