Recommended Lists for Students:

A student of calligraphy needs to awaken all the senses in his body. An exposure to several interdisciplinary fields are needed to see different perspectives. Therefore, these resources contain different art forms.

Students or calligraphers who want to purchase old issues of Friends of Calligraphy Journal "Alphabet" , please email us a note. The old issues contain plenty of techniques from workshops and respected calligraphers.

Books

 

Materials & Supplies Links

John Neal, Bookseller
Flax
Paper & Ink Arts
Amsterdam Art
Ultrecht
Stampington

Stores that give a 10% discount to students and teachers with ID. Fort Mason art students are not given any ID but your printed email on your enrollment or the Friends of Calligraphy Fort Mason Classes brochure are honored in local stores such as:

Pearl Stores
Pearl San Francisco - 969 Market St. 94103.   415.357.1400
Dick Blick

Craft Shows

Stamping & Stenciling
Paint-Paint-Paint
Quilting

Centers & Journals

Letter Arts Review  
Calligraphy Centre
History of Calligrapy
Calligraphers
Pacific Center for the Book Arts
San Francisco Center for the Book
Tabellae Ansata

Essays
Steve Jobs on Calligraphy
Chinese Calligraphy
Book Typography
Trajan's Forum

Manuscripts & Archives

Ancient Manuscripts
Klingspor Museum
Hill Monastic Manuscript Library
Latin Inscriptions
Paleography

Vatican Library
Victoria & Albert Musem

Sculptures:

As member of the Sculpture Committee in my community, I get to meet and see spectacular and
amazing sculptures created by contemporary sculptors. Check them out.

National Sculptors Guild
New Leaf Gallery
Michaelangelo Project

Museums

Top US Sites
Dead Sea Scrolls
Egyptian Museum
A to Z Museums For Ancient Manuscripts
Hot List of Museums
UK Museums
Museums By Countries Worldwide

History:

Calligraphy for Everyone
Explore Calligraphy
History of Calligraphy

Photography

Enjoy spectacular photography from two of my Photoshop World seminar teachers.

Stephen Johnson
Vince Versace

Outstanding Photography Sites

Quotations

Book of Quotations

This is to answer questions about weddings. A lot of questions via email are on weddings

Weddings

History of Wedding Invitations
Planning Weddings
Gallery and Slideshow of Wedding Invitations
Top Wedding Links
Jewish Wedding
San Francisco Bay Area Calligrapher - Weddings

Typography
References
Directory
TypeRight
Typography News
The Type Directors Club

International Calligraphy:

Calligraphy Worldwide
The International Association of Master Penmen, Engrossers and Teachers of Handwriting

Chinese

China Calligraphy Masters
http://www.wavedancing.net/knowledge/calligraphy/chinesemeaningwriting.htm

Arabic
http://www.sakkal.com/index.html
http://www.sakkal.com/ArtArabicCalligraphy.html
http://www.istanbullife.org/calligraphy.htm
http://www.lesartsturcs.com/calligraphy/index.html
http://www.artislamic.com/cc-2.html

Japanese

http://fudemoji.at.infoseek.co.jp/gallery/top_e.html
http://www.takase.com/
http://static.eastasiacenter.net/austindamiani/24explanatoryessay(shodo).htm
http://www.wanogakkou.com/culture/010000/010600_e.html

Philippines

Babayin: Pre-Hispanic Ancient Script
Laguna Copperplate Inscription

Korean

http://library.thinkquest.org/12865/mray/kor1.htm

 

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