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Writer's Cave - A Complete Calligraphy Kit for Beginners
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List Price: $24.99
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Manufacturer: Nicole
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Binding: Office Product
Brand: Nicole
Feature: Outstanding value
Label: Nicole
Manufacturer: Nicole
Publisher: Nicole
Studio: Nicole
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Outstanding value
Great calligraphy start kit
Step by Step instructions
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Summary: good product
Comment: It is nice in how they are designed. There is not enough instructions and help to learn.
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Summary: Not a calligraphy kit in any real sense
Comment: Any pen or pencil will do for the basic practice of calligraphy (which means "beautiful writing"). The beauty part comes from the scribe's own regularity, grace, and good eye, not from the writing implement. The other absolute necessity is p-a-t-i-e-n-c-e. Becoming a good scribe won't happen overnight. It's like learning any other art form, such as how to play a musical instrument: practice, practice, practice.
Once you've taught yourself how to form letters regularly and can letter out a neat-looking line of text with any pencil you pick up, then you can think about using a special-purpose writing tool.
The kind of tool you pick depends on the kind of result you want. Most of what we in Europe and the Americas think of as "calligraphy" requires a chisel-shaped pen. Held steady in the hand, it automatically makes lines that vary from thick to thin as your hand moves to write the letters.
If that's the kind of calligraphy you want to do, this set will NOT help you do it and there's no use buying it.
There are a number of companies that make chisel-point steel pen nibs. Speedball's C-series is probably the best-known in the US. You can get them at any art-supply shop and quite a few stationery shops. Other useful brands are Mitchell's, from England, and Brause, from Germany. All have their special good and bad points and unique sizes, so get a few of each - they're fairly cheap and very durable. Also get a bottle of NON-waterproof CARBON ink (Higgins Eternal is good), plus a good pattern book. Edward Johnston's "Writing, Illuminating, and Lettering" is the standard work as far as most scribes are concerned, but Speedball puts out a little handbook that's very nice too, also cheaper. Add paper, and you're ready to scribble.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Nice product
Comment: Bought this for my 14 year old neice. She really liked it, although it would have been nice for it to come in a case or box that you could store it in.
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Summary: poorly made leaky product
Comment: This product did not live up to my expectations. The ink cartridges leak, the pens are made of thin plastic and are not durable, the ink cartridges are difficult to install. It was a very disappointing christmas gift for my 10 year old daughter. Next time I won't buy something like this online...I'll buy something that I physically see and use.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Well, not for a beginner...
Comment: You will still need either a good book or a friend to help you figure out how to hold the pen and make the letters. This is just a kit w/ paper and pens and the pens weren't even that great. No matter how you write they don't make lines that transition between fat and thin. Might as well use a regular pen...
I am kinda dissapointed and will keep looking for better pens.
I give it 2 stars for dollar value.
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