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I have two large sheets of a beautiful, dry and crunchy handmade paper, which on one side have the imprint left by the clothespins when they were hung out to dry. I bought them in Italy during a trip, but I don't remember where ... This paper is superb with my pigment inks. With the others, the ink feathers and bleeds through the opposite side. For some time I have wanted to try my hand at writing an alphabet, like the intertwined ones that I see every now and then on the net, and I thought that a half sheet of my special paper could serve the purpose. I chose the white sheet (the other is an almost yellow straw color) and Montblanc Permanent Blue ink in my now trusty 149 Calligraphy. The idea was to arrange the letters of the alphabet so that they draw the outline of the nib of a fountain pen. I chose the nib of an OMAS as a "model", but now seeing the result I understand that I would have done better to choose a nib with wider shoulders, because the profile would have ben more evident. Anyway, here it is!