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How many things you’d need to become a calligrapher

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I’d always thought the ancient Arabs could count …

The art of the calligrapher

‘The calligrapher needs five things: a fine temperament, understanding
of calligraphy, an endurance of pain and a perfect set of implements’
Mir Ali of Herat (died AD 1556)

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