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Classical Handwriting With The QuillIt is a fact that people no longer need to send handwritten letters or to communicate in any way by using handwritten messages. Today everything can be types and there are several computer programs that can even imitate handwriting. Thus, why would one bother to learn how to handwrite and then to maintain or improve their handwriting. The answer is simply because of the feeling that handwriting gives both the writer and the reader. Handwriting can transmit feelings and emotions, as well as parts of one’s personality in ways in which typed messaged cannot. And the handwriting instruments can also play an important role in recuperating the unique atmosphere that can be created by handwriting. Here one can learn more about one of the oldest handwriting instruments ever developed, the quill.
The quill pen is a handwriting tool built from a flight feather of a commonly large bird. Specialists believe that feathers of the wing were commonly used as quills. They were the predecessors of the dip pen and they were used for writing with ink. The quill comes with advantages that make it still a used tool in modern calligraphy. However, the paper that is being used nowadays is mostly made by materials from wood pulp and this wears down the quill very easily which is one of the reasons why the quill is rarely used, even in calligraphy. Many professionals still prefer it in any case as it is more flexible than a pen and a sharp stroke. Most of the quills in the past were made from swam feathers, which were also the most expensive ones, together with crow, eagle, owl or turkey.
Writing with a quill is the closest one can get to the atmosphere of classical letters written by hand and this is perhaps why some people still use it.
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