ART AND IDENTITY: It was a book that he found at a seller of old books in Cairo that helped Mossaad Khodeir, better known as Khodeir Al-Portsaidy, to master the art of calligraphy at a very young ...

Designer Matt Stevens reimagines movies like ‘Die Hard’ and ‘Inception’ as covers in a book out this week from Chronicle Books.

A demolition ceremony was held Monday for the Old English Village at the Queen Mary, where officials said the teardown would pave the way for a safer, more vibrant area near the historic vessel.

Under this new naming, Class 1 and 2 English textbooks have been titled 'Mridang', while Class 3's book is now called 'Santoor'.

The Old English names for Oxford, Banbury, Wantage, ... The Domesday Book does not record Didcot, but there are 13th-century records of the town appearing as Dudecota, ...

Aly Faber, another conservator, sews endsheets onto old books. "For sewing on endsheets, you've got to sew a bit into the book as well," Faber said. Faber also sews signatures into books.

Over the past decade, 71-year-old Koay Choon Aun has perfected the art of paper cutting and calligraphy – art forms that are essential decorative elements during the Chinese New Year. What began ...

The six-year-old South Asia Institute, 1925 S. Michigan, examines this new brand of calligraphy with an expansive exhibition that should appeal not only to calligraphy and Asian-art devotees but ...

Books at this time had to be painstakingly copied by hand, a task often performed by teams of monks. Experts think the Book of Kells was created on Iona in this manner in about A.D. 800 by monks ...

Richard Hakes' latest column studies the impact an Iowa City woman has made with her calligraphy. ... vellum the exact Old English style of the original lettering on the left-hand page of the book.