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Thank you John, your comment is much appreciated. I am so sorry it's taken this long to reply. All my messages from CZcams were directed to a folder I rarely use and I'm picking them up only now. It is so easy to miss out letters/words or misspell in calligraphy, spacing, letter shape, stroke sequence, x-height, etc, all have to be taken onboard as well as spelling etc! I find it best for me (doesn't work for everyone!) to have the line from my rough attached with v e r y slightly sticky tape just above where I'm going to write. This aids spelling, spacing, and, hopefully, means that mistakes are avoided.

Thank you Jamila and Javed. Your comments are much appreciated. I am so sorry it's taken this long to reply. All my messages from CZcams were directed to a folder I rarely use and I'm picking them up only now. Pangrams can be found easily on the internet, and jumble words around as you wish - pangrams are not preserved in stone!!!!

Thank you so much Alice, your kind comment is very much appreciated. I am so sorry it's taken this long to reply. All my messages from CZcams were directed to a folder I rarely use and I'm picking them up only now. Copies of this book are still available from my website, although postage outside the UK is rather prohibitive. I am happy to write a first name in calligraphically.

Thank you for your comment Nomenfix, I am so sorry it's taken this long to reply. All my messages from CZcams were directed to a folder I rarely use and I'm picking them up only now. For the Left-handers Calligraphy Clip I spoke to left-handed professional calligraphers and also left-handers from my classes. They said that the suggestions here worked best for them. I had previously asked about writing the last stroke first as I had heard of that, but was told that it's tricky to get good spacing. However, I am a great believer in whatever works for you works for you, so don't stop!

Thank you so much juhyunkim. Your comment is much appreciated. I am so sorry it's taken this long to reply. All my messages from CZcams were directed to a folder I rarely use and I'm picking them up only now.

Oblique broad nib spacings / Parallel nib spacing , I wanted to find out about Gothic lettering , thank you

An angled nib is cool, but it’s hard to find a comfortable way to hold any pen when a big challenge seems to be that they are smoother being pulled across a page from the right rather than pushed from the left

It's odd that Lovett doesn't mention the technique I've seen lefthanders use successfully and easily with a regular italic nib (the usual nib right-handers use). The trick is to turn the page 90º clockwise so that in writing a line, the writing is done *down* the writing line - "left to right" becomes "top to bottom." The lefthanders in the classes I've seen quickly master this, and their hands are in a natural and relaxed position, and the nib edge is at the correct angle, 45º to the writing line.

Nice tips , thanks 🎉

Wow this is great advice. I’ve been doing broad edge calligraphy for nearly one month. I was so upset with myself yesterday when I was three quarters the way through my first proper exercise after strokes, letters, words etc to find I had missed a letter from a word, trying to think about so many things at once ( I’m male ha ha ). I find encouragement in seeing seasoned professionals make similar mistakes. Regards John.

Can the pangrams be jumbled i.e. ‘ the boxing wizards jump five quickly ’ , 😊

How can I get the similar panagrams that you hold …..

Thanks , this set was also my favourite ❤ 🎉

Big fan, thanks for this

Belas letras caligrafica, godicas Grande professora, obrigado pela atenção, quero fazer curso

I am so surprised that I do not seem to find one video here that instructs in how to do it the way I do it: I hold the pen in my left hand and with the hand above the line and in the correct angle. And then I write all the letters BACKWARDS, meaning that they look completely normal, but I start every letter where right-handed writers end, and end where they start, Has worked fine for me for more than 40 years.

Thank you! :D

Binge watching your videos on italic calligraphy. Thank you so much. They’re very helpful 🙏

You rock in 2023!!! Thank you 🙏

I’m just watching your videos on italic. I’d like to learn this type of calligraphy. Thank you 🙏

Can you paint with calligraphy gouache? What's the difference between this gouache and designer gouache?

Thank you Patricia. With regard to future videos, may I suggest that a local Art School would be delighted to assist with the technical filmmaking aspects in exchange for the opportunity to learn from your expertise about vellum and parchment. I'd certainly have jumped at the chance when I was at Art School.

Very helpful! Thank you for the tip with the compass. I happen to have one handy 😊

Thank you so much for your kind comments which are very much appreciated. Happy to help!

Thank you! This is really helpful. Just going to start using colour in my calligraphy. so glad I found this

Hi, the Instructions books become in danger if one travels to another continent, where he/she has calligraphy contract, because a penset has a particular fountain pens nibs , e.g. East Africa, where I lost an Instructional book of Calligraphy, and the pennibs became OOOf useless,

This is exquisite! Thank you so much for showing

Slightly closet are round and diagonal Letters

Though it has been many years since you released this video, but what are your thoughts on Pergamenata?

Dear sister , I'm person who want to start to write on this , and I need advice where to buy pen for this and is its possible for you to give me some contacts with people who could sell me skin parchment! I would be very happy and very greatful if you could give me tips and advices and little guidance

Love the accent B)

where can i buy this vellum and parchment?

I've been a leftie all of my life (over 60 years and counting). I remember in primary school being given a dip pen and ink exactly the same as all the right handers. The teacher wasn't so worried about the thick and thin parts of the lettering but more about the legibility of it. I also remember watching my mother (a leftie as well) write copperplate script with both hands at the same time - a trick she learnt while being taught by nuns in Ireland. As Patricia said - there is no reason that left handers cannot produce top quality script - we just need to bring our natural stuborness to bear on the problem!

Muito bonito. beautiful

do you find it easy?

Pero si al final escribe con la derecha.... 😒🙄🙄🙄

That is so kind of you to comment, Sajith. Thank you.

Thank you for sharing

That's very kind of you 15sweatequity. Thank you.

These Uncial videos are amazing, thank you very much for posting them for those of is trying to learn Uncial!!

Thank you Patricia for your very clear and brilliant explanation.

A video discussing lefty writing by a non lefty..... instant dislike

So sorry to be responding so late to your very kind comments Pavel. it is very kind of you to write and I'm delighted that you found it useful and enjoyed the commentary. Thank you.

Your tutorials are very helpful. After I took your workshop at the British Library, I am grateful that I can still watch these to review the strokes. Very much appreciated. Thank you Patricia.

what kind of nibholder do u have and what nib? nice old wooden

Not only is this video an inspiration, but it is also the greatest pleasure to listen! English is not my mother tongue, but I am so happy to be able to appreciate this language when it is spoken so well! Thank you!

I l iked,super helpful.Thank you

Dear Patricia, thank you for the wonderful video series, glad you uploaded to CZcams as well, as your DVDs are not available where I live (other end of the world). I am just getting started with calligraphy, first with fountain pens, now purchasing my first dip pens after watching your very helpful tutorials. Hoping that you will still upload again in the future I subscribed to your channel, just in case :) all the best!

Lazer cut a thin piece if wood with long holes at exact measurements for each pen. Then spend more time actually writing.

For anyone still looking for left-handed tips from a left-handed person, who chronicles his journey, search on YT for "Journey of left hand calligraphy with Klahr"