The Original

    Apple Pencil ™

(Handmade from Winesap Apple Tree Twigs)

pen • cil 

noun

1. An instrument for writing or drawing, consisting of a thin stick of graphite or a similar substance enclosed in a long thin piece of wood or fixed in a metal or plastic case that you use by pressing the black or colored part in its center against paper or some other surface and make a black or colored mark.

Single no. 2 graphite pencil in clear case is 7" long.  Mixed colors in bundle or tin and single no. 2 graphite pencils are 5" long. 

 Apple Pencil ™ is packaged in a clear case or bundles and old fashioned tins with 7 mixed colors.  Single No. 2 graphites are also available! 

 Twig Pencils™ 

are handmade from kiln-dried twigs from Winesap apple trees and other sustainable resources. Our graphite and colored pencils make wonderful creative writing & drawing tools for children and adults.   Twig Pencils™   are excellent for use with paper, coloring book, notebook, pad, sketchbook, or tablet. They have been handcrafted and  since 1990. 

Paper Pencil Collection™ 

featuring the original No. 2 graphite 

Dictionary Pencil™. The Paper Pencil Collection™ are  handcrafted from pages of discarded vintage books. 

Peavy™ Apple Lamp

The Peavy™ Apple Lamp is a lighting fixture handcrafted from Winesap apple tree branches and twigs with re-purposed objects for lamp shades and bases.

Each Peavy™ Apple Lamp is custom made by the artist hmpv and is only available at Peavy/Zotovich Collection, a shop and gallery in downtown Palm Springs, CA .

Free! 

* Approximately 2 billion pencils are used in the U.S. each year. That represents about 82,000 trees cut for pencils, as each tree makes approximately 170,000 pencils. 

No trees are cut down to make   Twig Pencils™.  All of our pencils are made from pruned branches of trees.