Learn World Calligraphy - Softcover

In "Learn World Calligraphy", renowned calligrapher and prolific author Margaret Shepherd provides a calligraphy instructional text unlike any other. This comprehensive, unparalleled 192-page volume covers virtually all the world's writing systems, ranging from Chinese, Arabic, Russian, Korean, Hebrew, Thai and Indian scripts to the alphabets of our earliest ancestors in Africa and the Americas. The book features Shepherd's exquisite hand-drawn illustrations, gorgeous full-colour examples of both traditional and modern calligraphic designs, plus modern materials and projects. Readers will also learn how the basics of each exotic script can be applied to the English alphabet in order to create readable calligraphy with a foreign flair.

Margaret Shepherd is the author of 16 books on calligraphy, including Learn Calligraphy, a classic in the field. She has been interviewed or quoted by Newsweek, Oprah Magazine, Vogue and many other newspapers and broadcasters. Shepherd's original calligraphy is in the Rare Books Department of the Boston Public Library and the Cooper-Hewitt Museum (Smithsonian) in New York City.