The Brause Introduction to Calligraphy Wallet of 9 classic lettering styles cards. For each alphabet, arrows show the order and direction of the pen strokes. A sketch indicates the correct pen angle required for each script.
With these cards you can practice by tracing the letters on a range of papers including layout paper.
The lettering styles are Carolingian Script, Modern Sans Serif, Gothic, Gothic Black Letter, Gothic Fraktur, Chancery Cursive, Italic Script, Roam Alphabet and Uncial.

Brause Introduction to Calligraphy

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The A to Zig Calligraphy Book is a small 22 page book showing you how to produce a stylish Italic Alphabet with your Zig Calligraphy Pens. The guide shows you how to produce a capital and lower case letters.

The second section shows examples of work using Zig Pens. The final section shows you how to blend colours and flourish letters.

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Copperplate, a calligraphic style popular in England in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, remains one of the most elegant and popular styles among calligraphers. This volume is a complete manual on the technique of writing with the pointed pen in roundhand, which is the American version of copperplate.

You’ll find detailed step-by-step instructions for executing the straight stroke, variations on the straight stroke (heavy strokes, hairline), curved stroke, push stroke, shading, ligatures, and other components of the style. Mastery of these strokes will in turn enable you to form lower-case letters and variations, capitals, alternate forms of capitals, numerals, and more.

The author has provided numerous sample letters in both upper and lower case, alphabet sentences, and two short compositions for use in learning to draw the letters properly. Also included are helpful suggestions on selection and care of a calligrapher’s tools: inks, nibs, paper.

A model book as well as an instruction book, The Technique of Copperplate Calligraphy is completely written in roundhand. By carefully studying its elegant script and practicing the formation of letters according to the author’s expert advice, even beginning calligraphers can achieve a good standard of the influential and distinctive copperplate style.

This is useful book to have in your collection. Along with ‘Mastering Copperplate Calligraphy’ this book will help you work out the order and directions of the penstrokes for both lower and upper case letters.
Original Dover (1987) publication. Foreword. 48pp. 8″ x 11″. Paperbound.

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Illuminated Letters – a treasury of decorative calligraphy is a wonderful book about illumination. The book is split in to four sections.

The first section is a very detailed section on tools and techniques. Many books breeze over the tools you will need – not this one. All tools and materials are covered in great detail. For example, detailed guidance is given on how to prepare your workstation, fit a reservoir to the nib, paper types, preparing vellum and making egg tempera paint. Finally there is detailed instruction on gilding and using gold leaf.

Section two deals with a wide of topics about preparing to work, including; layout and design, planning your work, enlarging letters and details, and transferring designs are covered in this section.

The third section of the book is an alphabet directory containing completed decorated alphabets and numbers based on six historic styles which range from 7th-century Celtic to 15th-century Renaissance. Within each historic style, detailed instruction is given on how to create an illuminated letter. Each alphabet sections is followed by a selection of scripts suitable for writing out accompanying text.

The final section of this book is a contemporary gallery showing examples of work from some contemporary calligraphers. The work not only reflects the historical development of the craft, but also shows something of calligraphy and illumination’s exciting present.

Scribblers Calligraphy Books

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If you are seeking ideas for your projects, look no further. We have just added two new Celtic Design Source books to our range of books. These stylised illustrations of designs inspired by Celtic art and craft will help you create original pieces of work to be proud of.
The Celtic Borders & Motifs book and the Celtic Knotwork Designs books are both beautifully illustrated photocopiable collection of decorative Celtic patterns. They contain classic illustrations that will inspire calligraphers and artists in creating ideas and projects.

Celtic Books

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