Perhaps we’re biased, but there’s a unique beauty to drawing pencils that isn’t matched by your everyday writing pencil. Usually painted in a pleasing color and embossed with their name and grade, ...

TICONDEROGA — A giant sculpture of six Dixon Ticonderoga No. 2 yellow pencils that were once sourced in Ticonderoga was unveiled before an applauding crowd Thursday at the Ticonderoga Heritage Museum ...

Graphite is a unique element with special qualities beyond its use in pencils. It’s a fantastic conductor of electricity, as well as extremely heat resistant, withstanding temperatures of over 3,000 ...

The No. 2 pencil is one of the most common pencils in the world. Numbers are used to classify grades of pencils in the United States, while both numbers and letters — in what may be called the HB ...

The global supply chain for pencils just got more complicated. China said Friday that it would start requiring stricter permits on exports of graphite, a key mineral component of pencils, but perhaps ...