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Find Calligraphy Products from AnythingLeft-Handed.co.uk.
I have been asked many times for information about left-handed calligraphy. While
I would like to not make a distinction, it is inevitable that this will be so on
the subject of calligraphy.
If you write with your left hand you will need a left-handed calligraphy pen (if
you are using a cartridge pen) or left-handed nibs (if you are using a pen holder
and dip nibs). The broad edge of a calligraphy pen nib is cut at a slight oblique
angle. Left-handed nibs are cut on the opposite angle to right-handed nibs so that
they write smoothly on the page when held in the left hand.
If you hold a right-handed nib in the left-hand it digs into the paper unless you
turn it sideways to make it write. But then the thick and thin strokes of the nib
will be the wrong way round! Not all pen nibs will dig into the paper if you push
as you write. Most cartridge pens will not and an italic nib will not either. Italic
nibs are usually designed to write the letters in one movement, rather then the separate
strokes used to make up other forms of alphabets.
Don’t despair, there is help at hand. Most suppliers of calligraphy equipment will
stock left-handed pens and pen nibs.
Anything Left-Handed.co.uk and Amazon.co.uk
both stock a good range of left-handed
calligraphy books and pens.
both stock a good range of left-
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