Italic Instruction

Italic Letters: Calligraphy & Handwriting

By Inga Dubay and Barbara Getty. A comprehensive and “user friendly” instruction manual designed to be a self-instruction course in basic, formal, chancery and cursive italic. There’s much here for students of Italic and teachers. Final chapter includes formats, margins, poster layout, contrast, spiral writing, simple handsewn books, cards & certi?cates. 8.5" x 11", 128 pp, glossary, index, bibliography, sample ruled pages. paperback.

Italic Letters: Calligraphy & Handwriting (ITALET)

Write Now: A Complete Self-Teaching Program For Better Handwriting

By Inga Dubay & Barbara Getty. The best italic handwriting manual that we’ve seen. Along with clear step-by-step instructions for monoline italic lower case and then cursive italic, Dubay and Getty also teach edged pen italic as handwriting and then cursive and chancery cursive italic. This workbook style volume is enhanced with numerous drawings, alphabets, short histories and explanations about related subjects such as papyrus, cuneiform, American Indian signs. The authors have also included a section on the development of our alphabet, guideline sheets, and several envelope layouts. A very thorough, entirely hand-written, self-teaching program. 96 pp, 8.5" x 11"

Write Now: A Complete Self-Teaching Program For Better Handwriting (WRTNOW)

Italic Calligraphy Handbook

Italic Calligraphy Handbook by Caroline Joy Adams. Presenting a method that makes calligraphy simpler to learn than any other known to the author, this method allow the student ot establish a simple, basic Italic style that can become a springboard for personal interpretation and variations. Examples from the earliest Italian manuals & Alfred Fairbank, large letter models, detailed analysis of each letter, a stroke system, nine ruled guide sheets and related letter families for learning make this a simple and thorough way to learn Italic. Contemporary examples include pieces by Jerry Kelly, Marcy Robinson, Paul Shaw, Carol Ann Millner, David Mekelburg, Howard Glasser, & Jeanyee Wong. 96 pp., 8.5" x 11", pb.

Italic Calligraphy Handbook (ITADAM)

Italic Starter Kit

Our Italic Starter Set includes our best self teaching workbook Italic Letters by Inga Dubay & Barbara Getty -- Portland, OR teachers who have taught calligraphy on cable & italic handwriting to physicians in seminars around the globe. The tools in this kit match the size of the lettering & lines shown in their book. Use the layout paper as tracing paper or work directly in your book.

The set includes:

1. Faber Castell 2mm black marker, $2.95

2. 2mm Brause pen nib, $1.53

3. Speedball C0 nib, $2.09

4. Double wooden penholder, $1.50

5. Manuscript Deluxe 6 Nib Cartridge Set, $14.50

6. Higgins Eternal ink, $3.38

7. Boris Marker Layout pad-50 sheets, $7.45

8. Italic Letters book, shown above

ITASTR Italic Starter Set with all items above, $47.30

Italic Starter Kit (ITASTR)

Italic Calligraphy and Handwriting: Exercises & Text

By Lloyd Reynolds. Step-by-step instruction on Italic handwriting and calligraphy. Sections on Roman caps and page and book design. Paperback.

Italic Calligraphy and Handwriting: Exercises & Text (ITREYN)