THE 2-MINUTE RULE FOR SHORT PENCILS

As a technique for drawing, the closest predecessor into the pencil was silverpoint or leadpoint right until in 1565 (some sources say as early as 1500), a sizable deposit of graphite was found to the approach to Grey Knotts from your hamlet of Seathwaite in Borrowdale parish, Cumbria, England.[4][5][six][7] This certain deposit of graphite was p