If you're interested, there's an artist on Etsy who sells handmade reed pens made out of Phragmites australis, the plant used to make reed pens in the ancient Mediterranean and in Ptolemaic Egypt:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1120847164/

And Arundo dornax, used in Ethiopia:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1120920684/

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