Calligraphy Class
The Philadelphia Pen Show has a annual favorite, the Calligraphy Class, taught by Deborah Basel. Learn to write the way the Founding Fathers wrote, in fact in the same city as the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution were written.
Nib Meisters All 3 Days
Richard Binder
”I grew up in the Rocky Mountains of western Montana, the third son of a college professor and a medical technician. To them, insofar as I can remember, a pen was a thing to write with. Period. And the elementary school into whose care I was consigned had an ironclad rule forbidding the use of fountain pens, perhaps to avoid scenes reminiscent of that between Penrod Schofield and the hair of Victorine Riordan, the little octoroon girl who sat in front of him in school (Penrod, © 1914 Booth Tarkington). But my mother’s father, the well-known pictorial photographer and writer Paul L. Anderson, knew what writing was all about. When he used a pen (at least from the late 1920s until his death in 1956), it was a red rippled hard rubber Waterman’s Ideal Nº 7 with a Blue nib, a pen that I now own and cherish.“ (From Richard Binder's website. You can read more about Richard at his website, Richardspens.com under "About Us."
Classes
Calligraphy classes,$25
Deborah Basel
Saturday, Noon to 2 PM
Sunday, Noon to 2 PM
Comes with 1–Day pass and free calligraphy pen
Susan Wirth
Free Pen Seminar:
Why some pens can make anyone's writing look good!
A common sense approach for people who don't like their handwriting, who are left-handed, or who “just print.”
Friday, Noon–1PM
Sunday, 11AM–Noon
Roger Cromwell
Penopoly Pens
Collecting pen seminar, Free
(See "Schedule Page" link for updated times)
Mike Kovacs
Free Seminar
The Art of Personal Letterwriting
Saturday, 3–4 PM