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 ...

Some call it the Rolls Royce of chalk, the Steinway of writing utensils. Some say it’s unbreakable, others say it leaves no dust behind. And it turned the world’s brightest minds into hoarders, going ...

POCHEON, Gyeonggi Province ― For many professors and teachers, especially teaching mathematics, there's a chalk brand which is at the top of the chalk world ― Hagoromo chalk. Though it is priced three ...

You'd be forgiven to think that chalk is just that, chalk. A stick of porous, sedimentary carbonate rock. However widely underappreciated the tool is, the world of chalk is actually run on a hierarchy ...