FASCINATION ABOUT SHORT PENCIL

As a method for drawing, the closest predecessor to the pencil was silverpoint or leadpoint right up until in 1565 (some sources say as early as 1500), a considerable deposit of graphite was discovered about the approach to Grey Knotts from your hamlet of Seathwaite in Borrowdale parish, Cumbria, England.[4][5][6][seven] This specific deposit of