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STAEDTLER CREATIVE GIFT IDEAS - FOR THOSE WHO LOVE TO BE INSPIRED!

As one of the world’s leading manufacturers of writing, colouring and drawing instruments, as well as modelling/polymer clays, STAEDTLER gives form to ideas and creative inventions the world over. Quality, innovation, design and functionality characterise all STAEDTLER products.

UK-based artist, Johanna Basford, author of global best-selling adult colouring books, ‘Secret Garden’ and ‘Enchanted Forest’ is a fan of STAEDTLER products including the STAEDTLER pigment liner 308 that she uses to create her extraordinary designs.

STAEDTLER Christmas gift ideas for the ‘artistically-inclined’ in your life include:STAEDTLER triplus® fineliner range The triplus fineliner range has recently extended its colour range to 36 brilliant colours. The addition of six new NEON colours makes the triplus fineliner offering distinctly unique. triplus fineliner is a preferred favourite for those taking advantage of the current trend of ‘adult colouring’ for intricate colouring detail.

Features include a superfine, metal-clad tip, and ergonomic triangular barrel offering effortless fatigue-free comfort when writing. Attractive, metallic-grey triangular barrel with colour coding. triplus ink washes out of most textiles (water-based). Line width is approximately 0.3mm.

The triplus fineliner box can be turned into a pen stand quickly and easily – keeping all colours ready-to-hand. Other features include ‘dry safe’ so it can be left uncapped for days without drying up, its PP Barrel and cap to guarantee long service life, and its airplane safe feature where an automatic pressure equalisation prevents pen leakage while on board aircraft.

The triplus fineliner is available in wallet sets of six assorted neon colours, six assorted pastel colours, and four, 10 or 20 assorted colours; boxes of 10 in individual colours, 15 assorted colours (hangsell packaging), 36 assorted colours (hangsell packaging) and 26 assorted colours (including six new neons).

STAEDTLER Noris® colour coloured pencils made from WOPEX® material

STAEDTLER has recently launched an exciting new addition to its coloured pencil product range offering - Noris® colour coloured pencils.

Providing increased break-resistance, the Noris® coloured pencil is the first coloured pencil made from STAEDTLER’s innovative WOPEX® material.

What’s new? The unique WOPEX® manufacturing process extrudes and compresses the materials together in one piece. This process allows the introduction of a new homogeneous formulation of lead. The results provide stronger break resistance and smoother-gliding lead.

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