Offers advice on materials, tools, and organizing a workspace; provides instructions, tips, and techniques for calligraphy; and examines the history of writing

• Getting Started
• Basic kit
• Preparation
• Ruling lines
• Holding the pen
• Making a mark
• Getting it right
• Looking at letters
• Looing at mumber
• Alphabet Workbook
• The alphabets
• The variations
• Using the workbook
• Roman Capitals
• Uncials
• Half-uncials
• Carolingian
• Versals
• Gothic
• Batarde
• Italic
• Copperplate
• Foundational
• DESIGN & COLOR Which script?
• Margins
• Layout basics
• Cutting and pasting
• Texture techniques
• Alphabetical designs
• Interpreting the text
• The Principles of color
• Choosing and mixing color
• Writing with color Colored Backgrounds
• DECORTIVE DETAIL
• Flourishing
• Ornament
• Borders
• Illumination
• Designing an illuminated letter
• Applying gold
• Flat gilding Raised giding with PVA
• Raised gilding with gesso
• PROJECT
• Ltterhead
• Wedding invitation
• Poetry broadsheet
• Poster
• Concertina book
• Decorative border
• Celtic angular knotwork "A"
• Celtic inspiration
• Romanesque "N"
• Romanesque inspiration
• Arts and Crafts "T"
• Arts and Crafts inspiration
• Modern letter "H"
• Modern inspiration
• GALLERY
• Calligraphic scripts
• Design & color
• Decorative detail
• Project inspiration