Well, well, well – dragons amid clouds
On a joyous day walking around the Art Institute in Chicago, I spotted this beautiful, pristine celadon writing box with...
Handwriting as clothing
Those were the days, when you could flaunt and vaunt through the thrill of the quill.
The investment of...
Keats on hand-writing
Keats' letters are treasures - he is every bit as fine a correspondent as he is a poet. Here he...
Shaping words and forming letters
It’s unusual to read such a detailed comment on the act of writing by hand. But once you have the...
Of pens and pencils
Listening time: under 3 minutes.
This is a charming account of negotiating communist bureaucracy at the height of...
Inkhorn in one hand, pen in the other
Orlando enjoys a portfolio career, as a courtier, a diplomat, a landowner, a lady under house arrest, but throughout, he-she...
Handwriting as clothing II
Stansted Park is an elegant house set in 1,700 acres of park and woodland in the south of England....
Schoolboy sketches
Maurice Cramer was a Geneva schoolboy who joined his classmates in August 1870 for a school trip to discover Champéry. ...
Steady as she goes
When I created a category dedicated to the accoutrements of writing and drawing, I had in mind pens and their...
Roughing out poems
Hand-written notes and journals have a magic to them. Durrell is a favourite poet and his house in Greece was as...
Spirit of Dance
In developing a companion website dedicated to love of life and the joys of sharing it, I sifted thousands of...
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