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Spencerian Script / Re: Spencerian punctuation?
« on: August 07, 2022, 02:09:01 PM »
Lots of examples. I'll check my books as well regarding instruction.
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@AnasaziWrites thank you for sharing this fine article! Would love to see your Spencerian rendering of the "steal" quote.Happy to oblige, although I'm pretty shaky today, but I have a couple of pieces of scrap paper from a recent project on my desk that need using up, so here are two versions, one at x-ht 1/10th inch, the second at 1/16th inch. I'm posting these less than excellent bits of writing to encourage you and all others to post what they can do, and not wait 'till you think it's perfect or the best you can do. Give it a go.
Oh this article made my day! I want lapis lazuli in my dental plaque!It made my day, too. Thanks for posting it. I may send this article to my dentist.
Lapis Lazuli Hidden in Medieval Woman's Teeth
@TeresaS Thanks for your kind words! My publisher is still evaluating options for an English edition … but I guess the English speaking market is a bit saturated with calligraphy books, so maybe it will not happen.I'll buy a copy.
I turned the paper 90 degrees to the right and wrote the letter starting at the top.Brilliant.
The quote isn't mine but I can't remember who wrote it!A lovely script, @Ken Fraser , legible and very easy on the eyes. I don't know how you came up with it, but am glad you did. Thanks for sharing it.
Beautifully done, @Ken Fraser . Truly lovely.Ken, of all the amazing pieces you have shared with us, I think this is the best. Incredible work!Thank you, Erica.
This script was devised c1900 as a form of Spencerian Script, but it can be applied, as here, just as easily to English Roundhand. I wrote this from memory as I've mislaid my original exemplar but I remember seeing this named "Ladies Hand" around 30 years ago.
This was the the end result of many attempts.
This is written at an x height of 5mm. Any larger and the extended strokes are beyond me!
Far right, a unique oblique that I've had for a few years now. Totally unused. Come to think of it, I haven't picked up a dip pen holder for a very long time. Shameful really, but I guess it's not really my thing, and so as it stands I have a small collection of decorative sticks. First world problems of course!Well, @InkyFingers , they can be appreciated as the art they are without being used, just as people collect jewelry without wearing it, watches, fountain pens, knives, guns, stamps, so many things. Keep 'em as long as they bring you joy.