Lettercutting In Stone

Author : Richard Grasby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Lettering
ISBN : 0951385828

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Letter Cutting in Stone by Richard Grasby Pdf

Author : Tom Perkins
Publisher : Crowood
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-21
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781847977243

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Art of Letter Carving in Stone by Tom Perkins Pdf

The Art of Letter Carving in Stone portrays the beauty of this age-old craft alongside practical instruction. Written by an eminent practitioner and teacher, it guides the novice through the basics of letter carving, drawn lettering and making simple designs, and for the more experienced it explains a new proportioning system for classical Roman capitals and demonstrates a useful approach to designing letterform variations.Topics include: the development of twentieth-century letter carving; detailed instruction for V-incising the key strokes of letters; tools, materials, stone and making a letter carving easel; drawing a range of alphabets for use in letter carving; making inscriptions, gilding and painting letters, and simple fixings for inscriptions; designing headstones and plaques, house names, alphabets and poetry texts. This beautiful book illustrates a wide range of exciting and creative pieces, and celebrates the inspiring work of contemporary letter carvers. Superbly illustrated with 380 colour photographs and diagrams.

Author : Richard Grasby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Lettering
ISBN : 0812282434

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Lettercutting in Stone by Richard Grasby Pdf

Author : Richard Grasby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Lettering
ISBN : 090461431X

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Lettercutting in Stone by Richard Grasby Pdf

Author : Harold Crossley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Lettering
ISBN : UCSD:31822007682610

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Lettering in Stone by Harold Crossley Pdf

Author : Maggie Holtzberg
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 1558496408

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Keepers of Tradition by Maggie Holtzberg Pdf

Throughout Massachusetts, artists carry on and revitalise deeply rooted traditions that take many expressive forms - from Native American basketry to Yankee wooden boats, Armenian lace, Chinese seals, and Irish music and dance. This illustrated volume celebrates and shares the work of a wide array of these living artists.

Author : Lida Lopes Cardozo,Marcus Waithe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Lettering
ISBN : 1739587804

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Words Made Stone by Lida Lopes Cardozo,Marcus Waithe Pdf

Author : Simon Armitage,Pip Hall,Tom Lonsdale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Pennine Way (England)
ISBN : 1907587306

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Stanza Stones by Simon Armitage,Pip Hall,Tom Lonsdale Pdf

This title presents a record of the Cultural Olympiad sponsored project headed by Simon Armitage to carve specially commissioned poems into rocks in the landscape surrounding the Pennine Way. The book is filled with pictures accompanying the poems and accounts of the project.

Author : Carolyn Porter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781510719347

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Marcel's Letters by Carolyn Porter Pdf

Finalist for the 2018 Minnesota Book Award A graphic designer’s search for inspiration leads to a cache of letters and the mystery of one man’s fate during World War II. Seeking inspiration for a new font design in an antique store in small-town Stillwater, Minnesota, graphic designer Carolyn Porter stumbled across a bundle of letters and was immediately drawn to their beautifully expressive pen-and-ink handwriting. She could not read the letters—they were in French—but she noticed all of them had been signed by a man named Marcel and mailed from Berlin to his family in France during the middle of World War II. As Carolyn grappled with designing the font, she decided to have one of Marcel’s letters translated. Reading it opened a portal to a different time, and what began as mere curiosity quickly became an obsession with finding out why the letter writer, Marcel Heuzé, had been in Berlin, how his letters came to be on sale in a store halfway around the world, and, most importantly, whether he ever returned to his beloved wife and daughters after the war. Marcel’s Letters is the incredible story of Carolyn’s increasingly desperate search to uncover the mystery of one man’s fate during WWII, seeking answers across Germany, France, and the United States. Simultaneously, she continues to work on what would become the acclaimed P22 Marcel font, immortalizing the man and his letters that waited almost seventy years to be reunited with his family.

Author : Stephen Victor Tracy
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110407594

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Athenian Lettering of the Fifth Century B.C. by Stephen Victor Tracy Pdf

This book has chapters on methodology, on the writing of the first decrees and laws of the years ca. 515 to 450 B.C., on unique examples of writing of ca. 450 to 400, on the inscribers of the Lapis Primus and Lapis Secundus (IG I3 259-280), and on those of the Attic Stelai (IG I3 421-430). These are followed by studies of 11 individual cutters arranged in chronological order. This study brings order to the study of hands of the fifth century by setting out a methodology and by discussing the attempts of others to identify hands. Another aim is to bring out the individuality of the writing of these early inscribers. It shows that from the beginning the writing on Athenian inscriptions on stone was very idiosyncratic, for all intents and purposes individual writing. It identifies the inscribing of the sacred inventories of Athena beginning about 450 B.C. as the genesis of the professional letter cutter in Athens and traces the trajectory of the profession. While the dating of many inscriptions will remain a matter for scholarly discussion, the present study narrows the dates of many texts. It also pinpoints the origin of the mistaken idea that three-bar sigma did not occur on public documents after the year 446 in order to make those who are not expert more aware that this is not a reliable means of dating.

Author : Andrew Thomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1621130088

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Carving in the Round by Andrew Thomas Pdf

"Carving in the Round takes readers on a journey to develop their understanding of form, design, artistic creativity, and technical knowledge in wood carving"--

Author : Marc Drogin
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1989-11-01
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780486261423

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Medieval Calligraphy by Marc Drogin Pdf

Spirited history and comprehensive instruction manual covers 13 styles (ca. 4th–15th centuries). Excellent photographs; directions for duplicating medieval techniques with modern tools. "Vastly rewarding and illuminating." — American Artist.

Author : Ewan Clayton
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781619024724

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The Golden Thread by Ewan Clayton Pdf

From the simple representative shapes used to record transactions of goods and services in ancient Mesopotamia, to the sophisticated typographical resources available to the twenty–first–century users of desktop computers, the story of writing is the story of human civilization itself. Calligraphy expert Ewan Clayton traces the history of an invention which—ever since our ancestors made the transition from a nomadic to an agrarian way of life in the eighth century BC—has been the method of codification and dissemination of ideas in every field of human endeavour, and a motor of cultural, scientific and political progress. He explores the social and cultural impact of, among other stages, the invention of the alphabet; the replacement of the papyrus scroll with the codex in the late Roman period; the perfecting of printing using moveable type in the fifteenth century and the ensuing spread of literacy; the industrialization of printing during the Industrial Revolution; the impact of artistic Modernism on the written word in the early twentieth century—and of the digital switchover at the century's close. The Golden Thread also raises issues of urgent interest for a society living in an era of unprecedented change to the tools and technologies of written communication. Chief among these is the fundamental question: "What does it mean to be literate in the early twenty–first century?" The book belongs on the bookshelves of anyone who is inquisitive not just about the centrality of writing in the history of humanity, but also about its future; it is sure to appeal to lovers of language, books and cultural history.

Author : Humphrey Stone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-20
Category : Engravers
ISBN : 0995546274

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Reynolds Stone by Humphrey Stone Pdf

Author : Edward M. Catich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Alphabet
ISBN : 0962974021

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The Origin of the Serif by Edward M. Catich Pdf