A simple feather had to be hardened, carved, and tested before it could write a single word. In this episode, a quill pen is made from scratch and used the old way, revealing why slanted desks, ...

It used to be that every educated person could write in a fair hand. Computer keyboards and touch screens have since made regular use of a pen something of an anachronism for many young people, let ...

As a student at Stanford University in 1994, the Chinese-American programmer Jerry Yang and his friend David Filo compiled a directory for the budding Internet called “Jerry and David’s Guide to the ...

This workshop suitable aged 8 and above. Children under 12 must participate with an adult. Calligraphy, the art of beautiful handwriting. It is “the art of giving form to signs in an expressive, ...

Regarded by the Chinese as the highest expression of all art forms, calligraphy has been flourishing and evolving in China for over 3,000 years. The extraordinary variety of calligraphic techniques, ...