The Society of Scribes and Illuminators Where calligraphers can commune with like minded individuals.

Learn Calligraphy An extensive resource site with many links.

Visual Paleography A series of images of various scripts and brief notes with an emphasis on calligraphy technique.

Cynscribe Calligraphy Directory A large and comprehensive link site on matters calligraphical, and related areas.

Calligraphy A very attractive site aimed mainly at newcomers to the art, with some basic instruction and a list of relevant links.

Plumes et Calames The Belgian Association of Calligraphy has opened this English language discussion forum on calligraphy. As it is fully participatory, how good it becomes will depend on you. Registration is free. There is also a French language forum and a Dutch language forum.

The Iron Gall Ink Corrosion Website A site which tells you everything you could possibly need to know about iron gall ink, including how to make it, and problems of conservation. This site includes a booke of secrets, another one for those people who email me looking for ink recipes. It provides a translation of a Dutch work of 1596 on that very subject, and I'm sure it's much the same as medieval ink.

The Ink Compendium And another site with several ancient ink recipes.

Cutting Quill Pens from Feathers Just what it says, with detailed instructions and photos.

Regia Anglorum - Quills This sub-section of the very interesting Anglo-Saxon re-enactment site provides techniques for the production of quill pens and some ancient recipes for ink. They actually do it so they know it works.

Scribe Tools Page A series of images of scribal tools as displayed in museums and represented in art, this is part of an unusual site by a fantasy artist with a fascinatingly eclectic mind.

Waxed Tablets from Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages A simple link page to images of actual examples of these strangely neglected scribal tools, as well as depictions in manuscript illustration.

Traces from the Past An art dealer from the Netherlands specialises in little historic objects. You can find pictures of seals and styli, badges and brooches and whatever is going.

A Virtual Exhibition of the Ravages of Dust, Water, Moulds, Fungi, Bookworms and other Pests From the European Commission on Preservation and Access, a site explaining and showing the horrible things that can happen if you don't look after your books and manuscripts.

Calligraphy by Johan A modern calligrapher struts his stuff.

Skrifarinn The personal web site of "the only contemporary scribe in Iceland" who produces beautiful calligraphic reproductions, complete with illustrations, of ancient Icelandic manuscripts. She is looking for folks of similar interest to start up an Icelandic medieval re-enactment group, so this is one for the saga buffs. It is in English as well as Icelandic.