Tissues or cloth, and water if you like, for wiping ink off the nib, fingers, etc. You could use a board propped against a dictionary.)Ģ.ğair quality paper (preferably lightly ruled).Ĥ. Check that you have:ġ.Ě clear desk-space (preferably on a sloping writing-desk, or a desk-easel. In case you want to know, it’s pronounced ‘LIT-era tex-choo-WAH-lis kwod-RAH-tuh’.įirst, set up your workspace and materials comfortably. (Even more prestigious was textualis prescissa or sine pedibus.) This is the second-highest grade of Gothic alphabet from the period. The ‘littera textualis’ means it’s letters for the main text (ie high-grade formal writing)- and ‘quadrata’ refers to the square, regular, ‘four-sided’ look of it. Its Sunday title is littera textualis quadrata. The particular style of Gothic alphabet I’ve laid out here is a formal hand that would have been used for copying the main text (ie not translations or footnotes) of high-quality books in Latin between 12. By the end, you should, I hope, know more about writing Gothic than when you started. If you do the whole tutorial thoroughly, there are at least a couple of hours’ fun to be had out of it. The above is not a particularly good or beautiful example, but it gives you an idea. Colour temperature for calligraphy and art.
