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This page provides links to other calligraphy group sites, books and supplies, museum and library sites that feature historical manuscripts, and other sites of interest to calligraphers.


Supplies and Books


  • Arch
  • Artist & Craftsman
  • Blots Pens
  • Bound & Lettered
  • Daniel Smith
  • Dick Blick
  • Flax
  • John Neal, Bookseller
  • Letter Arts Review
  • Paper & Ink Arts
  • Talas
  • Utrecht
  • Washi Arts

Manuscripts and Inscriptions


  • Bancroft Library Rare Books & Literary Manuscripts
  • The Berlin Calligraphy Collection: Calligraphers
  • Bibliothèque Nationale de France
  • Bodleian Library
  • British Library
  • Butler Library
  • The Charette Project
  • Codices Electronici Sangallenses
  • Digital Scriptorium
  • Edward Johnston Foundation
  • The Fitzwilliam Museum
  • Getty Museum
  • Hill Monastic Manuscript Library
  • Klingspor Museum
  • Klingspor Schreibwerkstatt
  • Latin Inscriptions
  • Letterform Archive
  • Mills College Special Collections
  • Morgan Library
  • Newberry Library
  • Operina
  • Rare Book Room
  • Riccardiana Library
  • St. John's Bible
  • San Francisco Public Library
  • Les Tres Riches Heures
  • Trinity College Library Dublin
  • Vatican Library
  • Victoria & Albert Museum
  • The Walters Art Museum

Scribes of Note


  • Fr. Edward Catich
  • Karl Georg Hoefer

Book Arts Groups


  • Book Arts Web
  • Guild of Book Workers
  • San Francisco Center for the Book

Calligraphy Societies/Guilds


A L A B A M A

  • Birmingham Calligraphy Guild

A R I Z O N A

  • Calligraphic Society of Arizona

A R K A N S A S

  • Calligraphy Guild of Arkansas

C A L I F O R N I A

  • Friends of Calligraphy
  • Pacific Scribes
  • San Diego Fellow Calligraphers
  • Sea Scribes-Monterey Bay Calligraphy Guild
  • Society for Calligraphy Southern CA

C O L O R A D O

  • Colorado Calligraphers‘ Guild
  • Summit Scribes

C O N N E C T I C U T

  • Mysticalligraphers

F L O R I D A

  • Coastal Calligraphers Guild
  • Gulfcoast Calligraphy Guild
  • Ocala Calligraphy Guild
  • Scribes of Central Florida
  • South Florida Calligraphy Guild

G E O R G I A

  • Atlanta Friends of the Alphabet
  • Atlanta Penablers

I D A H O

  • Idaho Inkspots Calligraphy Guild

I L L I N O I S

  • Chicago Calligraphy Collective

I N D I A N A

  • Calligraphy Guild of Indiana
  • Kentuckiana Calligraphy and Paper Arts Guild
  • Michiana Calligraphy Guild

I O W A

    Iowa Scribes
    3712 Wenig Road NE
    Cedar Rapids, IA 52402
    (Active without a web address July 2016)

L O U I S I A N A

  • New Orleans Lettering Arts Association

M A I N E

  • Casco Bay Scribes

M A R Y L A N D

  • Chesapeake Calligraphy Guild
    PO Box 1320, Columbia, MD 21044
    (Active without a web address Jul 2016)

M A S S A C H U S E T T S

  • Masscribes-New England Calligraphy Guild

M I C H I G A N

  • Michigan Association of Calligraphers
  • Pen Dragons Calligraphy Guild
  • Valley Scribes
    205 Nebobish Avneue
    Essexville, MI 48732
    (Active without a web address July 2016)

M I N N E S O T A

  • Colleagues of Calligraphy

M I S S O U R I

  • St. Louis Calligraphy Guild

M O N T A N A

  • Big Sky Scribes
  • Bridger Mountain Scribes
  • Great Falls Scribes
  • Missoula Calligraphers Guild
  • Queen City Scribes
  • Yellowstone Calligraphers Guild

N E V A D A

  • The Fabulous Las Vegas Scribes

N E W   M E X I C O

  • Escribiente-Albuquerque’s Calligraphic Society
  • Southwest Calligraphy Guild
    7576 Grapevine Court, Las Cruces, N.M. 87190
    (Active without a web address July 2016)

N E W   Y O R K

  • Genesee Valley Calligraphy Guild
  • Greater Rochester Penmanship & Calligraphy Club
    175 Mildorf Street, Rochester NY 14609
    (Active without a web address Jan 2018)
  • Island Scribes
    PO Box 1043, Baldwin, NY 11510-1043
    (Active without a web address Jan 2018)
  • Society of Scribes NYC

N O R T H   C A R O L I N A

  • Carolina Lettering Arts Society
  • Coastal Calligraphers
  • Mountain Scribes
  • Triangle Calligraphers Guild

O H I O

  • Calligraphy Guild of Columbus
  • Greater Cincinnati Calligraphers Guild
  • Guild of the Golden Quill
  • Marietta Calligraphy Society
    60674 Somerton Hwy, Barnesville, OH 43713
    (Active without a web address July 2016)
  • Scripts & Scribes of Summit County
  • Western Reserve Calligraphers

O K L A H O M A

  • Calligraphy Guild of Oklahoma
  • Sooner Scribes

O R E G O N

  • Calligraphers Guild of Ashland
  • Capital Calligraphers
  • Coast Calligraphy Guild
  • Portland Society for Calligraphy
  • Valley Calligraphy Guild

P E N N S Y L V A N I A

  • Calligraphers Guild of Northeast Pennsylvania
  • Calligraphy Guild of Pittsburg
  • Philadelphia Calligraphers’ Society

T E N N E S S E E

  • East Tennessee Calligraphy Guild
  • Memphis Calligraphy Guild
  • Nashville Calligraphers Guild

T E X A S

  • Capital City Scribes
  • Fort Worth Calligraphers Guild
  • Houston Calligraphy Guild
  • San Antonio Calligraphers Guild
  • Texas Lettering Arts Council
  • Kaligrafos, The Dallas Calligraphy Society
  • Waco Calligraphy Guild

U T A H

  • Utah Calligraphic Artists

V I R G I N I A

  • Yorktown Calligraphy Guild

W A S H I N G T O N  D C

  • Washington Calligraphers Guild

W A S H I N G T O N

  • Nib ‘N‘ Inks
  • Peninsula Scribes
  • Rain Writers Calligraphy Guild of Northwest WA
  • Scripts & Scribes
  • Society for Calligraphy & Handwriting
  • Tacoma Calligraphy Guild
  • Windwriters
    661 Ranch House Lane
    Ellensburg, WA 98926
    (Active without a web address July 2016)
  • Write On Calligraphers

W E S T  V I R G I N I A

  • Charleston Calligraphers Guild
  • Huntington Calligraphers Guild

W I S C O N S I N

  • Cream City Calligraphers

C A N A D A

  • Alphabeas Calligraphy Guild
  • Bow Valley Calligraphy Guild
  • Calligraphers Guild of Manitoba
  • Calligraphic Arts Guild of Toronto
  • Calligraphy Society of Ottawa
  • Edmonton Calligraphic Society
  • Fairbank Calligraphy Society
  • Hamilton Calligraphy Guild
  • Kelowna Calligraphers’ Guild
  • La Societe des Calligraphes de Montreal
  • Lettering Arts Guild of Red Deer
  • Regina Calligraphy and Paper Arts Group
  • Royal City Calligraphy Guild
  • Warmland Calligraphers of the Cowichan Valley
  • Westcoast Calligraphy Society
  • Wheatland Calligraphy Guild

O T H E R S

  • Australian Society of Calligraphers
  • Calligraphy & Lettering Arts Society, UK
  • Calligraphy Centre
  • Calligraphy Society of Victoria, AU
  • Cyberscribes
  • Cynscribe
  • Edward Johnston Foundation (UK)
  • IAMPETH
  • Society of Scribes and Illuminators (UK)