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Woodless Artist Pencils
Think of them as pencils that skipped the middleman. There’s no wooden casing, just solid color all the way down, so they outlast ordinary pencils about five to one. They draw fat strokes on their side and fine lines on their tip, keep fingers tidy thanks to a matte finish, and live in a case that doubles as a display, because 24 colors deserve an audience.
Dimensions: 5.5" × 0.25" pencils
Material: Full pigment lead with matte coating
About the Maker
Karst began with two friends from Sydney who grew up across the street from each other and first met as rivals on the soccer field. Years later, Kevin Garcia and Jon Tse came across an unlikely material being used for food packaging in Taiwan: paper made not from trees but from stone. They launched Karst in 2017 to bring it to the desk. Their paper is made from leftover limestone and marble rubble from quarries and construction sites, ground to a fine powder and bound into sheets that are bright white, glassy smooth, and remarkably hard to tear or soak through. The same thinking runs through everything they make, including pencils that do away with the wood entirely. A B Corp that started with one simple question: why make paper the old way at all?
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Shipping & Returns
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