Pencils

[dewline]

Go look at this:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/magazine/inside-one-of-americas-last-pencil-factories.html

How one of the tools of what I've called an artform, a hobby and a trade at different times of my life gets made, in images, thanks to the people of the New York Times.

Comments

[mystical_journey]

I did not know pencils were so complicated to make. And I have benn just thoughtlessly using them all my life!

[agoodwinsmith]

That is beautiful. People (me) would buy a coffee table book with those photos in it.

I have a number of photo books about things that, by themselves, are only mildly interesting to me, and yet every time I purge my possessions, they are saved from the purge when I quickly flip through the book for bookmark debris. I always end up sitting down right there and looking at them again. These are those kind of photos.

[thewayne]

That is really cool.