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Calligraphy is one of the craft activities commonly practiced by many people either as a career or a hobby. Calligraphy is broadly defined as the art of creative and beautiful writing. The craft activity requires the individual doing it to possess advanced skills of doing it apart from the basic and common writing skills (Lancaster, & Fairclough, 2004). There are various multi-steps that are involved in calligraphy writing;

The first step in calligraphy writing is assembling of the writing tools. There are a number of writing materials that are deemed necessary in facilitating calligraphy writing. The materials include the ink, a paper to write on, a brush, an eraser as well as a seat.

After assembling the materials, sketching of the letters that are to be written in calligraphy follows. When writing in calligraphy, letters are not just written the way normal writing is done. All the letters to be written in calligraphy are first sketched so that modifications can be done on the already sketched letters. A pencil and an eraser are the most important materials in this step (Marsh, 1996).

The third step in calligraphy writing is creation of the letters that had already been sketched. When creating the letters to be decorated, the appropriate and corrects strokes have to be done so that painting of the letters would not be very challenging.

Finally, the decoration of the letters follows. This step is very crucial in determining how beautiful and attractive the calligraphy would be. This last step requires intense concentration as painting of the letters is involved. The most important materials at this step are the ink and the calligraphy brush. Other decorations such as color may be used. (Marsh,1996).

References

Lancaster, J., & Fairclough, C. (2004). Calligraphy. London: Franklin Watts.

Marsh, D. (1996). Calligraphy. Cincinnati, OH: North Light Books.

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