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B2769. Foundations of Calligraphy
Foundations of Calligraphy
By Sheila Waters. 2006. 126pp. 9"x11.25". Concealed spiral binding $35.00
The second printing of Foundations was completed in May 2008.
Sheila Waters’ long awaited Foundations of Calligraphy is now available! Sheila Waters is not only a master scribe, but a master teacher. She has made both her life’s work. For over 20 years of summer workshops, she took scribes through their paces for up to six weeks of in-depth instruction in letterforms (historical and modern) in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Students came as far away as Australia and Japan for these intensive classes. Throughout the rest of the year she taught and continues to teach many weekend workshops sponsored by calligraphy guilds throughout the USA and Canada. She is also a frequent instructor at the international calligraphy conference held each summer.
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B1137-2. Vol II of Spencerian Script &.../Sull
Volume II of Spencerian Script and Ornamental Penmanship
By Michael R. Sull. 1989. 8.5"x11". Paper. Spiral bound. Retail Price $29.95.
It contains the penmanship of Platt Rogers Spencer, and features over 1,000 reproductions of ornamental alphabets, correspondence writing, signature designs, novelty styles, and off-hand flourishing as penned by the great master penman. Volume I is no longer available.
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DVD23. Off Hand Flourishing DVD
Off-Hand DVD: Flourishing Techniques for Ornamental
Penmanship by Michael Sull. 106 Minutes. Color.
Covers basic tools and materials: pen points, oblique
holders, papers. Continues with preparing and using colored
and gold inks including mixing a sepia ink from vermillion
sumi & Higgins Eternal, using Dr.Martin’s Bleedproof White & Schmincke metallic gouaches. Begins with the primary flourishing strokes. Presents the basic steps for cartouches, scrolls, border designs, quills, birds, title flourishing, accent flourishes, and creative patterns. Finishes with a selection of over 50 different historical designs by a range of master penmen. It’s the closest thing to having Michael in the
room teaching you!
All our DVD’s are made to run on USA and Canada machines. If you live outside North America, you should check with the manual for your machine to see if it can play NTSC format DVD’s. If your DVD player can’t play our DVD’s, your computer may be able to.
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B2430. Calligraphic Type Design Digital Age
Calligraphic Type Design in the Digital Age: An Exhibition in Honor of the Contributions of Hermann & Gudrun Zapf.
Edited by John Prestianni. 2001. 204pp. 8.5"x11". Hardcover. Retail Price $49.95.
While supplies last. This is the catalog to the exhibition which also features the work of 14 other calligrapher/type designers who have been influenced by the Zapfs’ work including: Robert Slimbach, Alan Blackman, Rick Cusick, Jean Evans, Jacqueline Sakwa, Phill Grimshaw, Akira
Kobayashi, Jovica Veljovic,Viktor Solt, Julian Waters, & Richard Lipton. 100 color / 90 black & while illus.
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B2765. Books With Girth/Moote, Cherryl
Books With Girth
By Cherryl Moote. 2005. 220pp. 8-1/2" x 11". Paper.
This instruction manual covers books that have thick spines. Included are sewn books like coptic, longstitch and Secret Belgian Binding and many unsewn books like piano hinge, interlocking signatures, and the Spectabular book. The instructions are detailed and accompanied by clear diagrams, suggestions for variations and photos of the projects. The fifth in her bestselling series of instructional
manuals.
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B2773. Scripsit: Graceful Env II
Gsraceful Envelope Scripsit 2003-05.
2005. 8.5"x11". 24pp. Paper.
Features full-color reproductions of more than 50 of the winning envelopes from 2003 through 2005. The envelopes
incorporate each year’s theme in a creative and artistic way, using hand-executed calligraphy or fine lettering to address the envelope. Many feature inventive relationships between the postage stamp, the envelope design and the
lettering. It’s an inspiring collection.
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B2663. Woven & Interlocking Book Structur
Woven & Interlocking Book Structures
By Claire Van Vliet and Elizabeth Steiner. 2002. 142pp. 7.5"x10". Paper.
Instead of using sewing or glue, these book structures use woven and interlocking paper to bind the pages together. There are detailed, step-by-step diagrams and instructions for the dozen books with several variations. Examples of finished books are shown for each structure. This hard to find title was a fast seller at Confluence.
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DVD14. Gilding for Calligraphers DVD
Gilding for Calligraphers.
By Sally Mae Joseph (Sally Teague), one of the scribes working on the St. John's Bible.
Selecting and preparing vellum, slaking plaster and making gesso, gilding using loose leaf gold, preparing gum ammoniac and gilding with transfer gold, painting with shell gold and color. 130 minutes.
All our DVD’s are made to run on USA and Canada machines. If you live outside North America, you should check with the manual for your machine to see if it can play NTSC format DVD’s. If your DVD player can’t play our DVD’s, your computer may be able to.
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DVD16. Modern Gilding for Calligraphers DVD
Modern Gilding for Calligraphers.
By Sally Mae Joseph (Sally Teague), one of the scribes working on the St. John's Bible.
Curing and cutting quills; using quills and metal pens on paper and vellum; writing with gesso; using brushes on fabric; combining traditional and modern sizes; and laying looseleaf, transfer, shell gold, and platinum on vellum, paper & fabric. 70 minutes.
All our DVD’s are made to run on USA and Canada machines. If you live outside North America, you should check with the manual for your machine to see if it can play NTSC format DVD’s. If your DVD player can’t play our DVD’s, your computer may be able to.
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B2132. Calligraphy/Mediavilla
Calligraphy
By Claude Mediavilla. 1996. 336 pp. 10" x 13". Hardcover.
An encyclopedic treatment of calligraphy: tools and materials, the history of writing & script, the historical hands (roman caps, rustic, roman cursive, uncial, carolingian, gothic scripts, renaissance writing styles - including 22 model alphabets with ductus), the writing masters, the
20th century calligraphic revival and calligraphy & abstract painting. 490 illustrations, 200 in color. Full of color illustrations from historical sources and from contemporary scribes. It is also full of Mediavilla’s work which is seldom seen in the USA.Worth the price. -Hildegard Koger
Currently out of stock, but we can take backorders. Your card would not be charged until the book is in stock and ready to ship. .
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