TOOLS

Piercing tools to make slits and holes

• Lee Valley Tools: www.leevalley.com

• Garrett Wade: www.garrettwade.com

• Colophon Book Arts Supply: www.colophonbookarts.com

• Shanna Leino: www.shannaleino.com/shop

• Talas www.talasonline.com

• Colophon Book Arts Supply: www.colophonbookarts.com

Writing Implements

Quills

• Goose Quills: Historic America, 5091 Bailey Mill Road, White Oak, GA 31568, historicamerica@tds.net, 912-576-5178. 

• Quills, Cut and Uncut: Cornelissen www.cornelissen.com/cornelissen-reed-and-quill-pens-13390.html

Seal Stamps and Sealing Wax Dispensers

• Letter Seals: www.letterseals.com

• Herbin Calligraphy Supplies: www.jherbin.com

• Aladine: www.aladine.com

• Pelikan: www.pelikan.com

• ALB: www.seal-wax.com

• Abraxas Switzerland: http://www.abraxasswitzerland.com/e-www/kalligraphie.html

Sealing wax dispensers

We use a Surebonder L-270 low-temperature glue gun with glue-gun sealing wax: surebonder.com/products/plus-series-l-270f-low-temperature-full-size-hot-glue-gun

MATERIALS

Substrates

Paper

Handmade

• Neenah www.neenah.com

• Fabriano Paper fabriano.com/en

• Fine Art Store

• Hat Malzemeleri Islamic Papers

• Karin Sanat Islamic Calligraphy & papers

• University of Iowa, Center for the Book: book.grad.uiowa.edu/store/handmade-paper

• Moulin du Verger moulinduverger.com, available at CXD Ltd. https://www.cxdinternational.com/

• Hook Pottery Paper hookpotterypaper.com

• The Japanese Paper Place www.japanesepaperplace.com

• The Morgan Conservatory www.morganconservatory.org

• Colophon Book Arts Supply www.colophonbookarts.com

• Crowing Hens Bindery https://www.crowinghensbindery.com

Machine made

• Neenah 24 lb

• Perma-life 20lb

• printer paper

Parchment

• Pergamena https://www.pergamena.net/

Writing inks, pigments, and binders

Ink-making supplies, pigments,and binders

• Arabic Calligraphy Supplies

• Kremer Pigments (inks supplies, pigments, sealing wax making supplies, binders, adhesives)

• Beampaints

Locking

Silk Floss

• Colophon Book Arts Supply: www.colophonbookarts.com

• Talas: www.talasonline.com

• Treenway Silks: www.treenwaysilks.com

Adhesives

Sealing wax

• Calligrafia

• Abraxas Switzerland: http://www.abraxasswitzerland.com/e-www/kalligraphie.html

• ALB: www.seal-wax.com

• Aladine: www.aladine.com

• Herbin Calligraphy Supplies: www.jherbin.com

• Shellac Shack (lac buttons to make sealing wax)

• Kremer Pigments (turpentine to making sealing wax)

• Pelikan: www.pelikan.com