SHORT PENCIL FUNDAMENTALS EXPLAINED

As a method for drawing, the closest predecessor to the pencil was silverpoint or leadpoint until in 1565 (some sources say as early as 1500), a considerable deposit of graphite was identified over the method of Grey Knotts from your hamlet of Seathwaite in Borrowdale parish, Cumbria, England.[4][five][6][7] This specific deposit of graphite was