CW Pencil Enterprise Pencil Box

Closed.CW Pencil Enterprise, including its pencil subscription boxes, closed online and in-store in November 2021 after seven years.

What's in the box: When it ran, each box held a curated selection of wooden pencils chosen by the shop.

CW Pencil Enterprise is closed, and its pencil subscription boxes are no longer available. The shop, founded by Caroline Weaver, ran from 2014 to November 2021 as a small pencil store on the Lower East Side of New York City, with an online shop alongside it. Over those seven years it built a loyal following among people who care about writing and drawing tools, and its subscription box was one way the shop shared pencils it liked with customers far from New York. The box centered on wooden pencils, offering a curated selection that let subscribers try brands and grades they would rarely find in an ordinary office supply aisle. Today the website works as an archive. It keeps a selection of older blog posts and a stationery shop guide meant to help readers find other places to buy pencils and analog supplies near them. Visitors are also pointed to the Instagram account @cwpencilenterprise for occasional updates, and a mailing address and email are listed for questions. There is nothing to order or subscribe to. If you want a pencil or sketching subscription now, you will need to look elsewhere, and the shop's own stationery guide is a sensible place to start. The archived blog is still a pleasant read for anyone curious about pencils.