Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Palmer Method, a form of penmanship instruction developed in the late 19th century that replaced Spencerian script as the most popular handwriting system in the United States; Round hand, a style of handwriting and calligraphy originating in England in the 1660s; Teaching script; Zaner-Bloser, another streamlined form of Spencerian script
First page of Paul's epistle to Philemon in the Rochester Bible (12th century). A modern calligraphic rendition of the word calligraphy (Denis Brown, 2006). Western calligraphy is the art of writing and penmanship as practiced in the Western world, especially using the Latin alphabet (but also including calligraphic use of the Cyrillic and Greek alphabets, as opposed to "Eastern" traditions ...
Copy slips or copy strips are small slips of paper which were commonly used to teach calligraphy and penmanship between 1500 and 1920. The strips, which typically measure about 8.5 inches (22 cm) by 3.5 inches (8.9 cm), display engraved or handwritten examples of calligraphy or good penmanship.
Florey, Kitty Burns (January 20, 2009). Script and Scribble: The Rise and Fall of Handwriting (First ed.). Melville House. ISBN 978-1933633671.; The Palmer Method of Business Writing: A Series of Self-teaching Lessons in Rapid, Plain, Unshaded, Coarse-pen, Muscular Movement Writing for the Home Learner, Where an Easy and Legible Hand-writing is Sought.
Palmer Method, a form of penmanship instruction developed in the late 19th century that replaced Spencerian script as the most popular handwriting system in the United States; Round hand, a style of handwriting and calligraphy originating in England in the 1660s; Zaner-Bloser, another streamlined form of Spencerian script; Teaching script
Pounce is gently sprinkled all over the writing on the paper. When using a quill or a steel nib, and with inks that are made up to match those typically in use during the 18th and 19th centuries, and provided the pen has been used with the fine strokes typical of handwriting of that period, the handwriting will be sufficiently dry within 10 seconds to allow the paper to be folded without blotting.
An ex libris (Latin for 'from the books'), [1] [2] also known as a bookplate (or book-plate, as it was commonly styled until the early 20th century), [3] is a printed or decorative label pasted into a book, often on the front endpaper, to indicate ownership. [4]
Joseph Carstairs (2 March 1783 – 9 February 1844 [1]) was an English calligrapher and writing teacher who devised a new system and style of writing in the early 19th century. [2] Carstairs's system emphasised a "bold and free writing" when he first introduced it in 1809. [ 3 ]