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Greeting from the USA!

 

Several years ago I was very into fountain pens and spent a lot of time reading FPN without ever posting. I particularly liked collecting and restoring old pens. (simple repairs—just sac replacements and nib alignments) Eventually though like got in the way and the hobby fell by the wayside. For several years I switched to writing only with a pair of Noodler’s Nib Creapers and then, when everything went online during the pandemic I found myself writing by hand so little that I often didn’t even have a pen inked.

 

Now I’ve been bitten by the bug again so I figured I’d finally make an account. In the past I was mainly interested in flex nibs, but an interest in early medieval manuscript hands has led me to be interested in stubs and italics now as well.

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Greetings from Pittsburgh!  :W2FPN:

So what got you interested in medieval calligraphy?  SCA perhaps?  Because I know a lot of amazing calligraphers and illuminators, although I've only dabbled myself (other activities caught my interest).

I generally suggest that new folks to the forum click on the "View New Content" button at the top of the page to get a good range of a variety of topics -- and to NOT do what I did when I started out, which was to read the Parker Forum... ALL of it! (a decade ago it was 175 PAGES of threads -- it's bigger now...).  But I also warn people that they've come amongst evil enablers, who will happily help them spend their discretionary budget on pens, inks, paper, repair tools, sealing wax and seals, desk accessories, storage, and ephemera....

Have fun, enjoy your time here, and remember that the only dumb questions are the ones that don't get asked.

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Greetings from Pittsburgh!  :W2FPN:

So what got you interested in medieval calligraphy?  SCA perhaps?  Because I know a lot of amazing calligraphers and illuminators, although I've only dabbled myself (other activities caught my interest).

I generally suggest that new folks to the forum click on the "View New Content" button at the top of the page to get a good range of a variety of topics -- and to NOT do what I did when I started out, which was to read the Parker Forum... ALL of it! (a decade ago it was 175 PAGES of threads -- it's bigger now...).  But I also warn people that they've come amongst evil enablers, who will happily help them spend their discretionary budget on pens, inks, paper, repair tools, sealing wax and seals, desk accessories, storage, and ephemera....

Have fun, enjoy your time here, and remember that the only dumb questions are the ones that don't get asked.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

Actually it's because I studied early medieval history in grad school. I figured that practicing the hands myself would make it easier to read them.

Thanks for the advice! I spent a HUGE amount of time reading threads on here years ago (probably 2014/2015) and it'll be interesting to see what's changed.

 

Thank you everyone for the warm welcome!

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