IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. A native of of Suzhou, Jiangsu ...

The history of calligraphy—the art of handwriting as a medium of expression beyond the meaning of words themselves—could be generically traced to the earliest found symbols. There was a time when ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The text of the Holy Mother ...

Around 40 universities feature names inscribed by Mao Zedong, whose distinctive running script-style handwriting is widely ...

The "Autobiography" is a representative work of calligrapher Huai Su (737-799) in his later years in the Tang Dynasty (618-907). Huai was a monk as well as a devotee of the art of cursive script. His ...

Common Core standards do not call for cursive instruction as mandatory part of curriculum At least 41 states do not require public schools to teach cursive reading or writing The standards promote ...

People often ask Dani Kreeft if stationery is going the way of the fax. But she says it has only become more meaningful in a world of Facebook invites, emails and Snapchat.

Cursive script for the Roman alphabet can vary from country to country and can reveal much about where and how you were taught, writes Adrienne Bernhard. Cursive eulogies are everywhere these days, ...