Why Learn Calligraphy?
It’s fun, it’s useful, it’s a way to develop your creative self and it gives pleasure in the form of your beautifully handwritten greetings, homemade birthday cards, personalized thank-you messages etc. It’s also cheap and easy to start. It connects you along pleasurable, spooky routes with millions of writers from the past, and uncovers ways in which communications technology has changed while people haven’t, much. You’ll never again look at a piece of handwriting, or even a printed page, in quite the same way. You learn calligraphy for the same reasons you learn public speaking as an advance on ‘just talking’. Calligraphy is a collection of skills and techniques which turn ‘just handwriting’ into a structured artistic performance which holds your audience’s attention and earns applause. Calligraphy is something to be geeky about. It boasts terms like ‘textualis quadrata sine pedibus’. You can get right into it and make your own ink and paper, and swap recipes online for the best auth
