Caran d'Ache is a

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s. The company, established in 1915, produces a wide range of products including

colored pencil A colored pencil (American English), coloured pencil (Commonwealth English), pencil crayon, or coloured/colouring lead (Canadian English, Newfoundland English) is an art medium constructed of a narrow, pigmented core encased in a wooden cylindri ...

graphite pencil A graphite pencil, also called a lead pencil, is a type of pencil in which a thin graphite core is embedded in a shell of other material. The pencil shell is typically wooden, but can be made of plastic or recycled paper. History A large deposi ...

pastel A pastel () is an art medium in a variety of forms including a stick, a square a pebble or a pan of color; though other forms are possible; they consist of powdered pigment and a binder. The pigments used in pastels are similar to those use ...

fountain pen A fountain pen is a writing instrument which uses a metal nib to apply a water-based ink to paper. It is distinguished from earlier dip pens by using an internal reservoir to hold ink, eliminating the need to repeatedly dip the pen in an in ...

ballpoint pen A ballpoint pen, also known as a biro (British English), ball pen (Hong Kong, Indian and Philippine English), or dot pen (Nepali) is a pen that dispenses ink (usually in paste form) over a metal ball at its point, i.e. over a "ball point". ...

mechanical pencil A mechanical pencil, also clutch pencil, is a pencil with a replaceable and mechanically extendable solid pigment core called a "lead" . The lead, often made of graphite, is not bonded to the outer casing, and can be mechanically extended as its ...

s, markers,

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paints, and ink cartridges.

History

The company was established as "Fabrique Genevoise de Crayons Ecridor" in

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in 1915.Meet the brand
on Cult Pens When Arnold Schweitzer took over the company in 1924, he renamed it after

Caran d'Ache Caran d'Ache was the pseudonym of the 19th century French satirist and political cartoonist Emmanuel Poiré (6 November 1858 – 25 February 1909). The pseudonym comes from russian: карандаш, italic=unset, translit=karandash meani ...

, the nickname of the French satiric political cartoonist Emmanuel Poiré (who in turn took his name from карандаш (''karandash''), the

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pencil A pencil () is a writing or drawing implement with a solid pigment core in a protective casing that reduces the risk of core breakage, and keeps it from marking the user's hand. Pencils create marks by physical abrasion, leaving a trail ...

, itself of Turkic origin). In 1974 the company moved its production center to Thonex, a municipality of the

Canton of Geneva The Canton of Geneva, officially the Republic and Canton of Geneva (french: link=no, République et canton de Genève; frp, Rèpublica et canton de Geneva; german: Republik und Kanton Genf; it, Repubblica e Cantone di Ginevra; rm, Republica e ...

. The company is known to include precious diamonds in the pens, and for that, in 1999, the ''Modernista Diamonds'' pen was included in the '' Guinness Book of Records'' as "the most expensive pen in the world".Band story - Caran d'Ache
22 Oct 2019

Products

Some of Caran d'Ache products developed over the years include:Caran d'Ache celebrates 100 years
on Craft Business, 2015 * ''Technograph'', the classic pencil introduced in the 1920s. It has been its most longstanding product to date * ''Fixpencil'', a

invented by Carl Schmid in 1929. * ''Prismalo'', the first

watercolor Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (British English; see spelling differences), also ''aquarelle'' (; from Italian diminutive of Latin ''aqua'' "water"), is a painting method”Watercolor may be as old as art itself, going back to t ...

pencil in the world, launched in 1931. * ''Neocolor'' (1952), a wax oil pencil, changed in 1972 to make it water-soluble * ''Ecridor'' (1953), originally intended to a be an alternative to the ''Fixpencil'', then added a ballpoint pen to its line to redefine it as a luxury product * ''849''

of 1969, successor of the ''Ecridor'' * ''Madison'', the first

made by the firm * ''6901 Luminance'' (2010), a new range of colored pencils

Gallery

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Coloured pencil A colored pencil (American English), coloured pencil (Commonwealth English), pencil crayon, or coloured/colouring lead ( Canadian English, Newfoundland English) is an art medium constructed of a narrow, pigmented core encased in a wooden cylindri ...

s File:Carandache Ecridor.jpg, A luxury pen File:Caran d'Ache Filzstifte.JPG,

Felt-tip pen A marker pen, fine liner, marking pen, felt-tip pen, felt pen, flow marker, sign pen (in South Korea), vivid (in New Zealand), texta (in Australia), sketch pen (in South Asia) or koki (in South Africa), is a pen which has its own ink source ...

s File:Caran dache fixpencil 0012.jpg, A type of

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Acrylic paint Acrylic paint is a fast-drying paint made of pigment suspended in acrylic polymer emulsion and plasticizers, silicone oils, defoamers, stabilizers, or metal soaps. Most acrylic paints are water-based, but become water-resistant when dry. Depe ...

tubes File:Caran d'Ache's NEOPASTEL 12 colors.jpg,

Oil pastel An oil pastel is a painting and drawing medium formed into a stick which consists of pigment mixed with a binder mixture of non-drying oil and wax. They differ from other pastel sticks which are made with a gum or methyl cellulose binder, an ...

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