{"id":703,"date":"2010-11-23T12:41:36","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T17:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/?p=703"},"modified":"2010-11-22T12:54:39","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T17:54:39","slug":"paper-for-calligraphy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/paper-for-calligraphy\/","title":{"rendered":"Paper for calligraphy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cheapjoes.com\/art-supply\/SM400-4_4887_strathmore-series-drawing-pad-quot-x-quot.asp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cheapjoes.com\/store\/images\/products\/detail\/SM400-4.jpg\" title=\"Strathmore paper\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"230\" height=\"320\" style=\"float:left; padding:5px;\"\/><\/a>For what it&#8217;s worth, this is the paper I&#8217;m presently recommending to my students.<\/p>\n<p>Scribes write on parchment, but parchment is mad expensive, and it&#8217;s foolish to take your first tottery strokes with a quill on the most expensive medium available. Much better to get started on paper.<\/p>\n<p>But what sort of paper? You don&#8217;t want paper that&#8217;s too rough, because a quill won&#8217;t do smooth lines. You don&#8217;t want paper that&#8217;s too absorbent, because a quill won&#8217;t do crisp lines. You want a nice smooth &#8211; but not too smooth &#8211; paper that doesn&#8217;t absorb too much ink. And ideally, you want to be able to run it through the printer to print guidelines, because drawing your own guidelines is horribly boring.<\/p>\n<p>Well, this stuff works. It&#8217;s not the only stuff that works, but you can buy it in the art store that&#8217;s nearest to the Drisha Institute, by whose courtesy and in whose classrooms I am holding my scribe class this semester, so it&#8217;s the stuff I&#8217;m using at the moment. And if you&#8217;re wondering what to buy, you could certainly do worse than this.<\/p>\n<p>The picture links to Cheapjoes.com, which I use periodically; they are quite satisfactory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For what it&#8217;s worth, this is the paper I&#8217;m presently recommending to my students. Scribes write on parchment, but parchment is mad expensive, and it&#8217;s foolish to take your first tottery strokes with a quill on the most expensive medium available. Much better to get started on paper. But what sort of paper? You don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calligraphy","category-safrut"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":705,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions\/705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}