There are large deposits of graphite in the region, which is used in making pencils.

This method of making pencils is still used today.

He helped pioneer the use of plastics to make pencils.

Her emergency-rockets made thin pencils of flame two hundred feet long.

Munroe had then made a business out of making lead pencils.

Koh-i-Noor makes mechanical colored pencils with replaceable leads in 2.0, 3.15 and 5.6 mm sizes.

It is used as a timber tree to make pencils.

The trees turned out to be too twisted to make pencils, but the island was too charming to give up.

It also makes personalized pencils for companies, museums and shops.

Around 7% of the 1.1 million tonnes produced in 2011 was used to make pencils.