One of the pieces my friend Sharon & I enjoyed and talked about most at the Friends of Calligraphy exhibition the other day was “The Rules of Courtly Love” by Linnea Lundquist (The rules are from the 12th century, by Andreas Capellanus — see them here). The writing is very tiny — the whole thing fits in a 10-inch frame — and it’s ingeniously arranged in what she calls a “labyrinth” pattern. It’s quite beautiful.
When I got home, I tried to find more images of Lundquist’s work (the photo above is from Cari Ferraro’s blog). I didn’t. But I discovered that I’ve met her several times at PCBA book fairs, where she and her husband, Ward Durham, sell pens and sealing wax (through their company Atelier Gargoyle).