How to Pick Calligraphy Paper

Video Transcript

"Joanna Joseph for Expert Village. We're going to do the final step in our calligraphy project, and that is put it on good paper. I've been working on graph paper so far. Now, what kind of paper do you use? My advice is try a bunch of different stuff. The thing you want to watch out for is paper that, some paper when you put the ink to it, it feathers, of course you want to avoid that. But you can use pretty much anything from Xerox paper up to fine, I have book manuscript here that I've lettered on arches distaff linen, which is the same paper they make money out of, and that will last five hundred years. Another paper that's nice, if it's going to be a piece that's put in a frame that's hung on the wall, you might want something with a little interesting texture and tooth, and for that you can consider charcoal paper. This is white charcoal paper. You can consider colored charcoal paper. For colored charcoal paper a good light box is important or you need to wing it. Get confident enough that you can just wing it without a guide version. But, for this project, my son's refrigerator magnet, I'm just going to take it to the Xerox shop and have it reduced, so I think I'm going to try just regular Xerox paper."