{"id":7299,"date":"2016-03-25T02:38:27","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T09:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=7299"},"modified":"2016-04-08T16:27:03","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T23:27:03","slug":"adult-coloring-book-crazy-killing-billions-and-billions-of-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2016\/03\/25\/adult-coloring-book-crazy-killing-billions-and-billions-of-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Adult Coloring Book Craze Killing Billions and Billions of Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/europe\/netherlands\/12199078\/Colouring-in-craze-causes-pencil-shortages.html\" target=\"_blank\">from The Telegraph<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Colouring-in craze causes pencil shortages<\/h1>\n<p><em>The craze for adult colouring-in has pencil factories working overtime to meet demand<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Senay Boztas and Colin Freeman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.telegraph.co.uk\/multimedia\/archive\/03597\/colouring-2_3597738b.jpg\" alt=\"Different colours of pencil\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><em>Different colours of pencil<span class=\"credit\">\u00a0 Photo: Alamy<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>A Scottish illustrator has been credited with boosting the fortunes of the global pencil industry after the surprise success of her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/lifestyle\/wellbeing\/11518259\/Hue-and-cry-over-colouring-in-for-grown-ups.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;colouring-in&#8221; books for grown ups.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/finance\/enterprise\/11960446\/Illustrator-Johanna-Basford-launches-Lost-Ocean-as-adult-colouring-book-craze-sweeps-the-world.html\" target=\"_blank\">Johanna Basford&#8217;s books <\/a>of elaborately-crafted fill-in drawings have tapped into a huge demand from those seeking to switch off from I-pads, laptops and computer games.<\/p>\n<p>Now, having already topped the Amazon best-seller lists, her tomes are also giving a massive boost in global sales for high-quality pencils, as colouring-in fans compete to make masterpieces of their work.<\/p>\n<p>Far from being a casualty themselves of the digital age, pencil manufacturers are now struggling to cope with demand, with Faber Castell, the world&#8217;s largest wood pencil manufacturer, revealing last week that it was now having to run extra shifts at its factories.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/europe\/netherlands\/12199078\/Colouring-in-craze-causes-pencil-shortages.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at The Telegraph<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Telegraph Colouring-in craze causes pencil shortages The craze for adult colouring-in has pencil factories working overtime to meet demand By Senay Boztas and Colin Freeman Different colours of pencil\u00a0 Photo: Alamy A Scottish illustrator has been credited with boosting the fortunes of the global pencil industry after the surprise success of her &#8220;colouring-in&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}