Natural charcoal sticks are the oldest drawing and painting material in the world. Their gray-blue shade glides smoothly on the paper, rubs and blends easily, can be erased without difficulty and covered as many times as you like. The slightly blue tone of this material has always caused a thrill in artists, even the old masters. Charcoal pencils leave a particularly dark mark. The combination of compressed charcoal with soot and clay gives charcoal pencils their deep black color and allows the production of pencils with varying degrees of hardness.(br /)
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Faber-Castell was founded in 1761 at Stein near Nuremberg by cabinet maker Kaspar Faber (1730–84). Faber-Castell is one of the world's oldest industrial companies and has been run by the same family for 9 generations.
Today the company is present in more than 120 countries. Faber-Castell has its own production facilities in 23 countries around the world. Faber-Castell is the world’s largest manufacturer of wood-cased pencils, producing over 2 billion graphite and coloured pencils a year. The company secures its leading position on the global market with its tradition of commitment to the highest quality and a wide range of innovative products.
The Art & Graphic range includes artists’ colour pencils (Polychromos), artists’ watercolour pencils (Albrecht Durer), artists’ pastel crayons (Pitt Pastel) and an extensive assortment of products for monochrome sketching and drawing (Pitt Monochrome).