There’s something deeply satisfying about opening a new box of coloured pencils. It takes you back to colouring as a child, new school stationary, or hours spent drawing.
Turns out it’s even more satisfying seeing how the pencils are made.
The Faber-Castell factory started out as a one-man operation in Nuremberg, Germany, in the 1700s, when Kaspar Faber set up his own pencil-making business.
After Kaspar’s death, his son Anton took over the business, which was already doing well.
He acquired a plot of land on the edge of Stein, with a workshop that within a few years he had built up into a flourishing factory. The site remains the headquarters of A.W. Faber-Castell to this day.
Take a look inside this historic factory here, complete with some wonderful imagery:
If you enjoyed that, here’s one more video showing the orderly process for good measure:
Now go out and get a box of coloured pencils. It’s the simple things…
[source:cnn&newyorktimes]
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