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Foreword | 8 | |
Introduction | 10 | |
How to Use This Book | 12 | |
Chapter 1 | Tools and Techniques | 14 |
Tools and Materials | 16 | |
Your Workstation | 18 | |
Paper | 20 | |
Vellum and Parchment | 24 | |
Preparing vellum | 26 | |
Stretching vellum | 28 | |
Brushes | 34 | |
Pens | 36 | |
Pencils | 38 | |
Paints | 40 | |
Gouache | 40 | |
Watercolors | 42 | |
Egg tempera | 44 | |
Inks | 48 | |
Gilding | 50 | |
Flat gilding | 52 | |
Raised and burnished gold | 54 | |
Shell gold | 61 | |
Metallic gouache and bronze powders | 62 | |
Chapter 2 | Preparing to Work | 64 |
Layout and Design | 66 | |
Color | 74 | |
Transferring Designs to Paper | 78 | |
Using Illumination and Decoration | 81 | |
Chapter 3 | Alphabet Directory | 84 |
Celtic | 86 | |
History | 88 | |
Step-by-step demonstration | 92 | |
Decorated capitals and numbers | 96 | |
Insular half uncial hand and variations | 104 | |
Borders and motifs | 108 | |
Ottonian | 110 | |
History | 112 | |
Step-by-step demonstration | 116 | |
Decorated capitals and numbers | 120 | |
Carolingian hand and variations | 128 | |
Versals and numbers | 131 | |
Borders and motifs | 132 | |
Romanesque | 136 | |
History | 138 | |
Step-by-step demonstration | 142 | |
Decorated capitals and numbers | 146 | |
Foundational hand and variations | 154 | |
Borders and motifs | 158 | |
Gothic | 162 | |
History | 164 | |
Step-by-step demonstration | 168 | |
Decorated capitals and numbers | 172 | |
Gothic hand and variations | 180 | |
Borders and motifs | 184 | |
Renaissance: White Vine | 186 | |
History | 188 | |
Step-by-step demonstration | 192 | |
Decorated capitals and numbers | 196 | |
Humanist hand and variations | 204 | |
Borders and motifs | 208 | |
Renaissance: Neo-Classical | 210 | |
History | 212 | |
Step-by-step demonstration | 216 | |
Decorated capitals and numbers | 220 | |
Italic hand and variations | 228 | |
Borders and motifs | 232 | |
Chapter 4 | Contemporary Gallery | 236 |
Glossary | 248 | |
Resources | 250 | |
Calligraphy Societies | 251 | |
Further Reading | 252 | |
Index | 253 | |
Acknowledgments | 256 |
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