Konya. During a visit to Konya, I walked through the Mevlana Museum, once the lodge of the whirling dervishes. Their way of life — the coins on their caps, the prayer beads, the dress they wore — stayed with me long after I left. It led first to the Sufi pen, and then to Dervish.
The sikke. At the very top of the pen sits a brown cap — a nod to the sikke, the tall brown felt hat worn by the dervishes.
The wrap. A band of green fabric wound around the sikke represents the cloth traditionally wrapped around it — and a silver clip, shaped to trail downward, echoes the way that wrap falls.
The vest. The lower portion of the cap is finished in black, styled after the dervishes' black vests.
The robe and the shoes. The white of the body echoes the dervishes' white robes, while the brown at the base of the barrel represents their shoes.
Materials and nib. Limited to 30 pieces, each Dervish pen is turned from the finest Italian acrylic and fitted with a German Jowo nib. Reach out any time for details.
Silver details. The clip and the fittings on the cap and body are hand-crafted from 925 sterling silver, worked entirely by hand.
