UNESCO has added a series of art to Intangible Cultural Heritage, including Arabic calligraphy, Al-Qudoud al-Halabiya - or traditional Aleppo music - Palestinian embroidery, Iraqi waterwheel craft skills, and Bahraini art.

UNESCO on Tuesday added Arabic calligraphy, a key tradition in the Arab and Islamic worlds, to its Intangible Cultural Heritage list. Saturday, 27th May 2023 Home

Ike Taiga Shōkadō Shōjō Ono Tōfū Fujiwara Yukinari ashide-e Sanseki sō Japanese calligraphy, the fine art of writing as it has been practiced in Japan throughout the ages. The art of calligraphy has long been highly esteemed in Japan.

How to write calligraphy: the first skill Hold your pen at an unchanging angle. For most scripts you'll hold the pen so that the tip of the nib points diagonally away from you to the left, at around 30-60 degrees. (The exact angle varies for different scripts - don't worry about this for the moment.)

calligraphy, the art of beautiful handwriting. The term may derive from the Greek words for “beauty” (kallos) and “to write” (graphein). It implies a sure knowledge of the correct form of letters—i.e., the conventional signs by which language can be communicated—and the skill to make them with such ordering of the various parts and harmony of proportions that the experienced.