calligrapher
Americannoun
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calligraphers
plural
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someone who practices calligraphy as an art or profession.
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(with modifier) someone who writes by hand.
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“Thank you very much,’’ Charles told heraldic artist Tim Noad and calligrapher Stephanie Gill, who worked on the project for 56 days straight.
From Seattle Times ● May 2, 2024
In fact, only a single dot over an i had been missing at the end, says the calligrapher, with no nightmare spelling mistakes discovered in the hand-stitched pages of copperplate writing.
From BBC ● May 2, 2024
St. John’s Abbey and University in Collegeville, Minnesota, commissioned the project and Donald Jackson, an internationally known calligrapher from Monmouth, Wales, in 1998.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 18, 2023
She studied with the lyrical abstract painter Richard Diebenkorn and the Japanese painter and calligrapher, Saburo Hasegawa, from whom she learned about Zen Buddhism.
From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2022
Who pursued the delicate tasks of the illuminator and the calligrapher?
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli
On TikTok, where users can find how-to videos or watch clips of experienced calligraphers at work, 63 percent more posts used #calligraphy in April 2024 than in April 2023, according to TikTok.
From New York Times ● May 29, 2024
“The skilled calligraphers and illuminators have created something more than an artifact of a particular religion or group,” Parish said.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 13, 2018
Elected to England’s Society of Scribes and Illuminators when she was just 22, Sheila Waters became one of the world’s greatest calligraphers.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 2, 2016
The scurry, and the claws, may be said to have a cause in evolution by natural selection, which works on organisms and parts thereof as traditional calligraphers work on Japanese scrolls, imperfectly but with elegance.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2016
He was famed throughout Asia Minor; his pen was the wonder of all calligraphers, for he was adept at every calligraphic style.
From Memorials of the Faithful by `Abdu'l-Bahá
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