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A demo I did a while back showing what it looks like when I write in Copperplate Calligraphy form.

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QT: video.qoto.org/videos/watch/4f

Jeffrey Phillips Freeman  
Writing Copperplate https://video.qoto.org/videos/watch/4f9bba66-e290-4fec-8feb-8ee43d69ef35

My latest pen is a wet-noodle (extremely flexible) 100+ year old fountain pen. She writes beautifully and is a Waterman's 42 1/2 (the creator of the fountain pen). Moreover she is a safety pen, meaning the nib retracts into the barrel before you put the cap on. There arent too many of these floating around after over 100 years!

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An antique I just purchased. It is a page from a handwritten bible from 1480 (yes, 541 years old). It is in latin, with ornate capitals, and amazingly the red is still very vibrant and the gold gilding on the Q very much in tact.

For those interested it is the Book of Hours psalms.

I decided to take some extremely high resolution scans before sealing it in some acrylic and prepare it to be framed. Will put it on my wall tomorrow.

I have an illuminated text from 1480 AD arriving sometime next week and I'm kinda excited (picture of the actual item I'll be getting attached).

For this weeks I am going to do a groups addition.

  • @Electronics - An Electronics Group
  • @theamazingweb - A group about interesting and novel things on the internet.
  • @vim - A group for everything VIM
  • @funny - A group for humour and memes
  • @mnmlsm - A group devoted to discussing unix and related topics
  • @calligraphy - A group devoted to sharing and discussing calligraphy & handwriting
  • @FreeSoftware - A group for discussing Free and Open-source software
  • @math - Everything math!
  • @dogs - A group for sharing pictures of dogs, for any reason.
  • @Science - A group to discuss Science topics.
  • @photography - A group for sharing or discussing photograph.

So its been about a month since the QOTO Moderated Groups Server came online at groups.qoto.org. It adds group capability to the fediverse with an owner capable of moderating membership in the group unlike previous group servers which were completely unmoderated and open.

We have had some amazing groups form and overall the server seems to be the most popular on the fediverse, I’m seeing more activity than the open-group servers which is great!

As such I wanted to share a list of a few groups I know of so far in case anyone is looking for a group to follow. Just follow the group as you would a user and you will be in the group and receive group posts in your timeline!

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Neat little exercise I did a while back writing the word "minimum" in a way that renders identically when you flip it upside down.

Taking the 1920s fountain pen I just fixed, a Waterman 52 out for a test drive. She handles beautifully. Thia is Italian Hand Copperplate script for those curious.

Side this is the best i to to any book every written.

Spent 20$ on a Waterman 52 from the 1920s that was non functional, these usually go for 200$. After 5 minutes i replaced the sack and she is good as new.

To my surprise she is even a wet noodle which is the most sought after kind.

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