A Ride on the Assembly Line With the World’s Most Famous Chalk (Published 2020)

The bright-white sticks drop one by one into the whir and clatter of a weatherworn piece of machinery, where they are stamped with the most celebrated name in chalk: Hagoromo. The early stages of the process look a lot like food production. The ingredients in what the company’s owner calls a “recipe” are dumped into a mixer originally designed for bread dough, and what comes out is fed into a knea

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羽衣チョークの技術移転の話「there are many things in the world that will disappear one day, but the best-quality item should be the last to do so（世の中にはいつかは消えるものがたくさんあるが、最高品質のものは最後の最後であるべきだ」