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Please send any requests for inclusion to Friends of Calligraphy.

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
  • InkMeThis
  • 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
  • Crafts Study Centre
  • 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
  • Rijksmuseum
  • 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/Tributes


  • Fr. Edward Catich
  • Karl Georg Hoefer
  • Tributes (FB)

Book Arts Groups


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

Lectures and Presentations


  • The Book of Kells, by Gemma Black
  • Sumner Stone on Typography & Calligraphy
  • Eye to Hand to Heart, by Christi Payne
  • Medieval Digital Resources (referenced by Christi Payne in her lecture)
  • Copperplate at the Harrison
  • Calligraphic Artist Books, by Carol DuBosch
  • Blackletter at the Harrison
  • DeAnn Singh, Hollywood's Favorite Calligrapher
  • Shaw on Sanvito
  • Laurie Doctor: The Imagination of a Maker
  • Joanna Homrighausen, Calligraphy as Experiment
  • Calligraphy Series: Zen Paradoxes, with Kazuaki Tanahashi
  • AGM 2024 Lecture - 7 Decades of Collecting for the Harrison Collection of Calligraphy and Lettering
  • Psychedel1a from the 19th Century to the 1960s & Beyond
  • The Hebrew Letter - A Calligrapher's Journey, with Izzy Pludwinski.
  • The Life and Times of an Off-Paper Calligrapher, with Brody Neuenschwander.
  • Public locations of Brody Neuenschwander's Art Works in Flanders (referenced by Brody in his lecture)
  • An Artist’s Journey: the First 40 Years, with Lily Yee-Sloan

Instructional Videos



As part of Friends of Calligraphy’s 50th Anniversary celebration, we are sharing demos by our members each month.
To view the playlist of all the videos, click here.

Calligraphy Societies/Guilds


A L A B A M A

  • Birmingham Calligraphy Guild (Les Illumineres)

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
  • 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

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

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
    8861 Blue Sea Drive,
    Columbia, MD 21046-1413
    (Active without a web address Jun 2024)

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 Avenue
    Essexville, MI 48732
    (Active without a web address Jun 2024)

M I N N E S O T A

  • Colleagues of Calligraphy

M I S S O U R I

  • St. Louis Calligraphy Guild
    P.O. Box 31083
    St. Louis, MO 63131

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
    712 Gary Lane, El Paso, TX 79922
    (Active without a web address Jun 2024)

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
  • Marietta Calligraphy Society
    60674 Somerton Hwy, Barnesville, OH 43713
    (Active without a web address July 2016)
  • Western Reserve Calligraphers

O K L A H O M A

  • Calligraphy Guild of Oklahoma

O R E G O N

  • Calligraphers Guild of Ashland
  • Capital Calligraphers
  • 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 Pittsburgh
  • Philadelphia Calligraphers’ Society

S O U T H   C A R O L I N A

  • Charleston Calligraphers Guild
  • Huntington Calligraphers Guild

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 E R M O N T

  • Green Mountain Scribes

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

  • Rain Writers Calligraphy Guild of Northwest WA
  • Society for Calligraphy & Handwriting
  • South Sound Calligraphers
  • Spokane Calligraphy Guild
    (formerly Scripts & Scribes)
  • Tacoma Calligraphy Guild
  • Windwriters
    661 Ranch House Lane
    Ellensburg, WA 98926
    (Active without a web address July 2016)

W E S T V I R G I N I A

  • Charleston 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
  • Canberra Calligraphy Society
  • Cyberscribes
  • Edward Johnston Foundation (UK)
  • IAMPETH
  • Society of Scribes and Illuminators (UK)