Plotter live · Edinburgh№ 001 — The Shop

Drawn bya single pen.For your wall.

PenPath is a shop of pen-plotted art. Every piece is composed by you, then drawn — stroke by stroke, in real ink, on heavyweight paper — by a small mechanical arm on our studio bench.

01 · Sakura Pigma 0.3
02 · Black archival ink
03 · 300gsm cotton
04 · A3, portrait
05 · One stroke at a time
06 · Plotted in Edinburgh
07 · Signed in pencil
08 · Shipped flat
01 · Sakura Pigma 0.3
02 · Black archival ink
03 · 300gsm cotton
04 · A3, portrait
05 · One stroke at a time
06 · Plotted in Edinburgh
07 · Signed in pencil
08 · Shipped flat
The shop

Pick a piece. Plot it.

Chapter one

Follow the pen from screen to wall.

  1. A studio bench with an AxiDraw plotter, jars of pens and stacked paper.
    Step 01
    01

    You design it

    Open the designer, drop a pin, tune the composition. Streets, water, parks, a marker over your front door. What you see is exactly what we plot.

    Open the designer
  2. Close-up of the AxiDraw pen plotter mid-stroke.
    Step 02
    02

    We load the pen

    Your file queues on the AxiDraw. A fineliner clips into the carriage. A fresh sheet of 300gsm cotton paper registers to the bed. The arm begins.

  3. Macro photograph of black archival ink lines on cream cotton paper.
    Step 03
    03

    It draws, slowly

    Every street, every river — one stroke. You can see the pen lift and start again. The texture under your fingertip is ink meeting paper, nothing else.

  4. Finished plotted map beside a pen, ceramic dish and kraft envelope.
    Step 04
    04

    Off the bench, into a tube

    Signed in pencil on the reverse, slipped between tissue and a rigid board, into a kraft mailer. It leaves the studio within ten working days.

The ticket

What's in every
piece.

Nothing about a PenPath print is mass-made. Here's what arrives at your door.

Paper
300gsm cotton, archival cream
Ink
Pigment fineliner, lightfast
Size
A3 — 297 × 420 mm
Drawn by
AxiDraw V3, hand-loaded pen
Edition
One-off, signed in pencil
Made in
Edinburgh, Scotland
Shipping
Flat, rigid mailer, worldwide
Lead time
5–10 working days

Make something
only yours.

The street you grew up on. The sky on the morning you were born. Compose it now — we'll plot it this week.

PenPath · Edinburgh · One stroke at a time