Writing Old-Looking Text: Using Your Pen

A guide on what you'll need to write old-looking text on your medieval parchment, and how to do so. Part of Mead Bowen's "Medieval Paper and Its Place in History."

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Howto & Style

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• writing
• calligraphy
• parchment
• old
• text
• how-to
• mead-bowen

[punchdrunkatheist]

Haha, I'm left handed, and watching this from a point-of-view perspective was so awkward for some reason.

[edwardmbowen]

@punchdrunkatheist A bit of cognitive dissonance never hurt anyone. ;)

[LPolamidon87]

xDD "Schooky-Wookums" ^^

[edwardmbowen]

@LPolamidon87 Hehehe

[SleepingStranger]

Think about the margins.

[vinisparta]

OMG you stole shakespeare clothes



[TheCondemnedProphet]

@edwardmbowen

Lol are you trying to look elizabethian? Perhaps, like a guy named Shakespeare aha?

[punchdrunkatheist]

@punchdrunkatheist Speaking of which, I forgot to finish my comment, lol. If you're still watching and responding to comments, can you give me some left handed advice? I have a problem when i write calligraphy, because my left hand brushes over what I've just written and smears it. Does that ink you're using dry a bit faster, or do you know of anything I might could do?

[edwardmbowen]

@anhquoc09 It's from a Speedball Calligraphy Lettering Set. It comes with 6 different nibs. Have fun! :)