Explore: Drawing Instruments

or a digital representation of such. Traditionally, the instruments used to make a drawing include pencils, crayons, and ink pens, sometimes in combination

and draftsmen use the drawing board for making and modifying drawings on paper with ink or pencil. Different drawing instruments (set square, protractor

century, although mathematics and science demanded more detailed drawing instruments. The adjustable corner ruler was developed in the 17th century, but

high-end instruments made today are produced from one or other species of boxwood. Boxwood was once a popular wood for other woodwind instruments, and was

also used for other functions such as painting, drawing and technical drawing, but writing instruments generally have the ordinary requirement to create

compass, also commonly known as a pair of compasses, is a technical drawing instrument that can be used for inscribing circles or arcs. As dividers, it can

Technical drawing, drafting or drawing, is the act and discipline of composing drawings that visually communicate how something functions or is constructed

stationery products, such as writing implements (including technical drawing instruments), art materials, and office supplies. Staedtler claims to be the

in 1989 by the W&G drawing instrument company, which had a factory in Melbourne for manufacture of technical drawing instruments. Young also developed

1995 Berol and Phillips, and in 1998 Rotring, a German technical drawing instruments company. Also in 1998, Sanford split into two divisions: Sanford