Thank you for your custom and support during the year.
Wishing you a Joyful Christmas and a bright and Happy New Year.

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You may have noticed the structure of our website has recently changed.  We felt there was sometimes too much scrolling down the sections.  There use to 19 sections at the top of the shopping pages.  We have now reduced these to 11 sections. They still exist but have been re-located under more relevant headings.

So, now if you want Calligraphy materials and equipment you will find them under the heading of Calligraphy Supplies.  If you are looking for Illustrators materials you will find them in the Illustrator Supplies section.  Some items, in particular nibs can be found in more than one section if they are suitable for calligraphers and illustrators.  Other products like pencils, rulers etc. are used by different artists and so are in more general sections like Drawing Equipment.

Over time we have posted lots of articles on our blog about different aspects of calligraphy.  The Calligraphy School is a new section which pulls together some of these posts on calligraphy.  So for example, all the posts on learning Roman Capitals can be now be easily   found in one place.

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This year, the CLAS Regional Day is being hosted by the Oxford Scribes and they have invited us along.

The theme of the day is East meets West and the keynote speaker is Manny Ling.  There will be the opportunity to watch skilled demonstrators and try your hand at something new.

Local calligraphy groups have organised an exhibition of their work.

You will be able to purchase calligraphy equipment, materials and books.

The Regional Day is Sunday 23rd October, from 10:00 to 4:00 pm

at Burford School, Burford, Oxon OX18 4PL

Download a EAST meets WEST ticket application

(Closing date for applications is 1st October)

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Friday, 9^th – 30^th September

During Library hours Wirksworth in Library,  Admission free

At the Wirksworth Festival this year, the Mercian Scribes will be exhibiting calligraphy  on the theme ‘Letters, Words and Language’.   Many pieces will be partly or totally in another language.

Peter Halliday,  an internationally famous calligrapher and lettering artist, will be exhibiting some of his work and also bringing Pearl Margarita, a pig decorated with imagery from the St Chad Gospel book, with a Latin and English quote written on her –‘ Do not cast your pearls before swine’. NB she will only be at the exhibition for the first 2 days ie 9^th and 10^th September.

Library opening hours –

Saturday 9-1 pm      Tuesdays 9-1 and 2-7pm.

Thursday and Friday – 9-1pm and 2-5pm

Monday and Wednesday – CLOSED ALL DAY

For more information please contact :-

Peter Halliday, tel. 01283 568320   Or Gill Cooper   tel. 01335 370459

Or Wirksworth Library,  Town Hall, Wirksworth, DE4 4EU  Tel. 01629-823173

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We here at scribblers are always thinking of ways we can improve interaction with customers and fans.  Because of this we are announcing a move for the blog!

You can now find our blog at: http://www.scribblers.co.uk/blog

So please update your bookmarks and RSS feeds.

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Over the next few days we are doing a lot of ‘back office’ stuff including stock take, software upgrades and website work.

So orders placed from this weekend until next Friday will not be shipped until Saturday 30th.  Thank you.

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Higgins Pen Cleaner removes dried waterproof ink from nibs, pens, and lettering instruments.Depending on condition, immerse item in for 30 minutes up to 8 hours. Rinse afterwards in water.

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This year the CLAS Festival of Calligraphy was held at Warwickshire College in Leamington Spa.The CLAS Festival of Calligraphy gives everyone a chance to indulge in calligraphy and lettering. World class tutors teach a variety of courses in lettering. This year’s tutors were Mary Noble, Manny Ling, Ian Garrett, Lin Kerr, Clare Whittaker and Vivien LunnissThe workshops take place during two 2 1/2 day sessions with Monday afternoon free.We were delighted to be asked to attend Monday afternoon. As usual it is very hard to decide what Calligraphy equipment and materials to take to an event. We can’t take it all, and you guessed it we were asked for one type of nib, which we had left behind. Another dilemma we have is what quantities of stock to take. Thankfully we got this about right. We only sold out of three items and one of these we had limited stocks because the supplier is also out of stock.It was great meeting lots of keen calligraphers in a relaxed environment. You could tell the calligraphers were really enjoying the Festival, because every single one of them who wrote us a cheque for payment could not remember what the date was!

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We have now finished the process of changing hosts. This morning the IP addresses were changed, which is why we were down for a few hours. Changing Host and IP address can take 4-40 hours for the new details to fully migrate. So it is possible you may not be able to visit our website for a while longer.If our web pages do not appear in your browser, it is worth pressing the ‘Ctrl’ + F5 button together to force the browser to refresh the page. There is a chance your browser is displaying an older page view from your browsing history.We apologise for this inconvenience, but changing hosts will improve our service to you.

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