Not all calligraphy equipment has to be top of the line quality which equals top of the line prices for it to do the job adequately. Sheaffer has a range of calligraphy pens retailing for around the $4 mark that will give you a result that you will find is more than satisfactory. Each of [...]
One piece of calligraphy equipment that may be overlooked but is definitely an essential part of the calligrapher’s utensils is the calligraphy pen holder. Holders can be made of wood or plastic with the very rare and very exquisite venetian glass an option too and are often combined with metal fittings.
Holders like the Heintze and [...]
Quite often when searching online for a new calligraphy pen you may find that the results you get back will direct you to “fountain calligraphy pens” pages. This may lead to some confusion as the newcomer to the world of calligraphy may not be aware of the difference between a calligraphy pen and a fountain [...]
The latest calligraphy pen maker we will be looking at is some of the Pelikan range. Pelikan pens are wonderfully well-constructed with the calligrapher in mind. In this particular post I want to concentrate purely on the calligraphy pens from Pelikan. In a future post I will be presenting the vast range of Pelikan fountain [...]
Italic hand developed in Italy, hence the name of the script, during the early Renaissance period of the 15th century. The italic hand was adopted by Pope Nicholas V for the papal chancery.
Today, italic is favored by modern scribes as a flowing script that can be created swiftly and requires fewer lifts of the calligraphy [...]
