For the last 6 years I have been learning Sofrut, the ancient Jewish art of calligraphy for the use of writing sacred texts, on and off. I started in Cleveland, continued in Jerusalem, and now in Maryland, I am going to being my first work, a Miggelah (scroll) of Esther. I’m very excited and scared about this endevor. My hope is to complete it by Purim, so that my students can read from it for the holiday.
This is a photocopied version of the text that I will be using as a guide. Beneath it is a piece of parchment. Very thick paper-like material made from the skin of a cow.
These are feathers from the wing of a goose. They will be transformed into a quill, called Kulmus in hebrew.
This is a special ink used to write on the parchment.