Showing posts with label Calligraphy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Calligraphy. Show all posts
September 5, 2016

Civil War Stationary and Envelope Templates

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" Good bye my sweet little wife -- write to me often" - Jedediah Hotchkiss to Sara A. Hotchkiss, August 4, 1861 ...
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August 18, 2016

Help Decode 15,971 Civil War Telegrams!

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The Huntington Library  is looking for volunteers to help decode and transcribe 15,971 telegrams sent by the Union Army during the Civ...
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July 25, 2016

18th Century Bookbinding with Ramon Townsend

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Today I was fortunate enough to attend a class on Colonial Bookbinding will Williamsburg trained bookbinder  Ramon Townsend  at the Harr...
January 28, 2013

Commonplace Books

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A commonplace book is a scrapbook where the author can record various important pieces of information that they want to remember. They were ...
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November 17, 2010

Irish Calligraphy

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Irish (Gaeilge) is very different from English, there are only 18 letters to work with and yet the letters can make many sounds. The s...
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November 21, 2009

Spencerian Ladies' Hand- Mid-1800s Handwriting Part II

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This is a continuation of an earlier post about Spencerian Handwriting which can be found here . This post includes the uppercase lette...
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October 30, 2009

Spencerian Ladies' Hand- Mid-1800s Handwriting

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        Period handwriting is beautiful. A long time has passed since such a beautiful, aesthetic hand has been taught in schools. A comm...
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October 9, 2009

Dip Pens and Period Inks

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         I love using dip pens. It is very calming to watch ink flow from the pen onto the paper.  Contrary to popular opinion, you don...
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