Qalam

The qalam is bewitching. After practising at flourishing and blotting with it on creamy, beige paper in ivory black ink, Amenbob wanted to rename us Cult of the Sweeping Sentences. We had to drop it because none of us are practiced enough to finish that long a name in calligraphic English,Urdu or Chinese characters. But so ultimately hypnotic- sweeping , crackling scratch of qalam on paper.



The one arrowed out is exactly like the one I have (except my wood is a tinge darker.)