As a young boy in Taiwan, Jerry Yang was forced to study calligraphy — writing Chinese characters with a brush. The practice is thought to mold character as well as to reflect it, but Yang found it a ...

Beautiful fonts are indispensable when designing something such as websites and posters, but handwritten characters have a unique goodness not found in digital, and in recent years it has attracted ...

Among the various calligraphic tools, the calligraphy brush is special to China. It represents one of the four treasures of study, which also include paper, ink and ink stone. Chinese calligraphy ...

Invented in China around 300 B.C.E, the bamboo brush was originally intended solely for traditional calligraphy and ink painting styles. When grouped together with the inkstone, inkstick, and xuan ...

I find myself daydreaming about writing next week’s word, and that first contact the brush has with the paper A while ago, I was given a gift voucher for a craft lesson, which I decided to use for ...

Clutching a brush with four fingers and wearing a smile across her face, student Ali Faria Hussain calmly and elegantly scribes four Chinese calligraphy characters – no small feat for someone with ...

A Chinese chef has used his trade skills to bestow a new life to an ancient art form. Tu Jianchuan, 24, writes stunning calligraphy, not with a traditional brush but a razor sharp meat cleaver. The ...