Simple but ingenious Pen Stands

[shrujaya]

Dear friends...

 

I was in Malappuram town in Kerala (India) last week to conduct a workshop for high school teacher trainees … and inevitably, I went pen hunting… Malappuram is a medium sized town and one wouldn’t expect to find a full fledged pen shop there… but, I saw a couple of stationery shops in the street where the lodge was located… and I found some FPs there…well, that is for another post…

 

A ‘handicrafts mela (fair)’ was also on in the town and Shruti and I decided to see what they had on offer…if you have visited one handcrafts fair in India, you know what to expect when you visit another… but you never know … things which wouldn’t have attracted my attention a year ago seemed to call out to me … like these two inexpensive pen stands that I saw in the Kerala State Handicrafts Stall … very ingeniously made from bamboo … bamboo looks suited for pen stands … I bought two, in fact they had only two designs … the smaller diameter ones and the larger diameter ones … and the larger pen stand also has a small receptacle … for a specially made inkwell? or for a round shaped eraser… though when I bought them, I didn’t think in these terms… these looked nice and inexpensive…and I liked the ingenuity of using bamboo for pen stands … and those small paint dabs look like Japanese style flowers …

 

For the purposes of this post, I have used the small diameter stand for my Leader and Brahmam celluloid FPs…you can see them in the photo…the stand looks made for these pens… and I have used the larger stand for the heavy thick FPs like the Guider Jumbo, Ratnam Supreme, and Deccan Major (brushed ebonite) … the bigger Deccan Masterpiece will be more appropriate I think…I have yet to get one…

 

I took some photographs of the pen stands at various nooks inside by flat…just to make it look interesting…

 

 

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The large diameter pen stand

 

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The small diameter pen stand

 

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Top view of both pen stands

 

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The small diameter pen stand with Brahmam and Leader celluloid FPs

 

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The large diameter pen stand with Guider Jumbo, Ratnam Supreme and Deccan Major

 

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Both pen stands with pens in my pen shelf

 

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My pen shelf

 

Thanks for your time...comments are welcome...

 

Shrujaya (Jayasrinivasa Rao)

 

[momo]

 

Very cute =)

[someonesdad]

Nice! Of course, a tasteless cheapie like myself will run out and glue something like this up from PVC pipe...

[Ghost Plane]

PVC pipe isn't sustainable. Bamboo is.

 

Nice find!

[tknechtel]

It's fun to see your flat and where you keep your pens!

Tom

[lovemy51]

Nice! Of course, a tasteless cheapie like myself will run out and glue something like this up from PVC pipe...

that's a great idea!!! :roflmho:

[shrujaya]

Dear momo, someonesdad, lovemy51, Ghost Plane, and Tom...

 

I am glad that you found these simple pen stands cute and nice and interesting...

 

I dont know how a similar pen stand made with PVC pipes will look like...that slightly unique element will be lost, I feel...

 

Tom, thanks for your gracious words...this was one occasion to show off my pen shelf...ha ha ha...come to Hyderabad...

 

Regards,

 

Shrujaya (Jai)

[SonyaSpiral]

Shrujaya;

 

Thank you for taking the time to photo and share this. I greatly enjoyed hearing (well, reading) your adventure.

 

Thanks for letting us take a peek.

[Okami]

Nice! Of course, a tasteless cheapie like myself will run out and glue something like this up from PVC pipe...

 

 

Hmmmm - pvc, old wallpaper or magazine photos, glue, clear varnish - might be a nice look