Many pictures of people holding quill and dip pens.

[Anne-Sophie]

The site, set up by a calligraphy teacher has the most informative pictures of people during various periods of history.

 

It shows how people's quills looked, much like a dip pen, with just a remnant of feather left at the top, as fellow FPN member Bo Bo Olson pointed out in another threat

 

 

https://www.calligraphy-skills.com/how-to-hold-a-pen.html

[Silvicolus]

What a wonderful resource!

[XYZZY]

That is an excellent site!  I don't practice calligraphy but there is a lot of interesting information there about development of some aspects of writing.  

[txomsy]

Really interesting, thanks.