Friday, February 26, 2010

Calligraphy Pens
Calligraphy is an art of tremendous presentation through its color, style and uses. Its main tools are pen or paint brush and ink. A calligrapher represents his marvelous creation by those tools. Mostly it focused on formation of characters, the ordering of the various parts and the harmony of proportions.

The ancient Romans, Egyptian, Chinese, Sumerians and also the Babylonians were used to habituate with Calligraphy pens; basically that ancient civilization has produced that glorious product which met up their demand at that time. This is very natural when we face some demand then we run for the solution.

From the ancient till to date there were several types of pens used for that calligraphy purpose. Such as reed pen which was created at Ancient Egypt times and this type of pen were made by a bamboo having a nib shape at one end. Afterward Quill/feather pen were revealed at medieval period to meet up the demand of writing. It was made of steel-tipped nib instead of bamboo and its longevity was more then reed pen. The Ancient Romans used a metal stylus with the wax tablets and its end the journey of Quill pen as it took a many time to sharpening its writing end. Later metal nib pen became very familiar and stylish.
In the Islamic and Chinese cultures, calligraphy is as highly revered as painting. The ancient Chinese used one kind of brush for that Calligraphy purpose instead of a tool as a calligraphy pen. Their Calligraphy pens were unique and elegant then ever made any type of Calligraphy pens or tools. It is made by goat’s hair or wolfs hair and also made up of two layers. The first layer is an inner core of short hairs that are then surrounded by an outer layer of longer hairs that form the tip of the brush

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