Pointed Nib Calligraphy - Historic Introduction To Muggle And Wizard Handwriting
Handwriting and calligraphy has been important since the early ages of manuscript transmission in the magical as well as in the muggle world. While business handwriting practically disappeared from the muggle world after the spreading of the so called typewriter (which was invented in the 1860s) in the early 1920s, in the wizarding world handwriting is still the standard tool for correspondence of all sorts. This book offers an introduction to different common historic pointed nib handwriting techniques such as english current, american spencerian ornamental penmanship, german current (Deutsche Kurrent), etc. Not only first year students should might find this guide helpful but also adult magicians and muggles can learn a great deal about a thoroughly structured, clean and elegant penmanship in this book.
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05/31/21
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About The Material (Quill, Oblique Penholder, Pointed Nib, Ink & Paper)
Chapter 4
Effective and good work can only be done with the right material.
I. About Paper
Parchment:
Parchment is made from animal skin (goat, calf, sheep). In the magical world it is still most common to write on parchment. This has two major reasons. Firstly for it's superb qualities for writing with ink and flexible pointed nibs and secondly because the tradition of producing high quality parchment has been optimized for hundreds of years and the neccessary spells and magical processes have therefore been develloped. There are ways to use the skin of one animal and magically enlarge it to over 5000 times the size of its original size. Even if the demand of parchment is quite enormous nowadays, this is a very practical method.
In the muggle world however the demand of paper exeeds by far the number of available animals. Already in the 15th century the parchment was widely replaced by paper for most uses except for luxury manuscripts. Since this time very different kinds of paper have been develloped and produced.
Not every kind of paper is suitable for the use with a quill pen.
