August 14 - World Calligraphy Day

Posted on August 14, 2020


Beautiful lettering - artistry in writing something special - personalizing a gift - lifting anything from an invitation to a place card from nice to magnificent - all of this and more is calligraphy.

The definition of calligraphy is decorative handwriting. People can create calligraphy using special chisel-tip felt pens, brush pens, broad-nib pens that are dipped into ink, or brushes and ink.



Here and here and here are some videos to help you learn calligraphy. And here is a calligraphy-teaching website with text and photos. Oh - and did you know that there is fake or faux calligraphy? I didn't, but it turns out that it exists. 
 

And here are some lovely examples of calligraphy:












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