CANETA DE PENA E TINTEIRO

LUGARES DE ENCONTRO PARA A ESCRITA (SÉCULOS XIX E XX)

Abstract

QUILL AND INK BOTTLE: MEETING PLACES FOR WRITING (19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES)

Abastract: This paper aims to discuss the objects used for writing that are characterized as school artifacts such as quill, dip pen and ink bottle. These materials were essential to the act of writing, whose meeting place is materialized in the writing itself. The feather, the quill and the inkbottle were artifacts used in and out of the school environment and they were used, mainly in the 19^th century in Brazil and also the beginning of the 20^th century, by a literate elite. Their memories and use prescriptions were left in advertisements in teaching magazines and other materials. Tracking these uses via their publishing on these prints will allow for the rising of traces of this material, apparently banal nowadays, but which served in the past for the learning and development of writing. Used for handwriting, they concerned not only the learning of the act of writing and copying, but also handwriting practice and muscle effort in order to use it with ink and their different tips. The theoretical-methodological approach of this study makes use of a literature review associated with prints in the aim of expanding the possibilities to learn about a repertoire of past practices that still affect our present. For the results, we aim to show that these artifacts used for writing in and out of school circulated in teaching prints as advertisement or instruction as to learning and use, portraying the way school and materials were constituted over the years.

Keywords: Quill. Ink bottle. Prints. History of Education.