Soraya Syed is one of the few full-time female Arabic calligraphers in Europe.

BBC: The Koran through the ages

Whether they are recording information or simply creating beautiful forms, calligraphers brushes are used to ink five different styles of script, known as seal , official , cursive , running and regular .

UNESCO: Culture

Koetsu's sources reached back hundreds of years, and yet his way of writing "fat and thin" characters, some bold and emphatic and others trailing to the faintest visual whisper, was peculiarly his own (at least among Japanese calligraphers) and difficult to emulate.

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