Calligraphy [IG Storytime]

Guest Contributor: Zunaida Wadiwala

Date: April 4, 2022

Subject: Zunaida discusses the history and craft of calligraphy. Zunaida talks about the origins of calligraphic tradition, its mechanisms and various script, and how it is honored contemporarily.

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