Meet Hemoprova Chutia: The Padma Shri awardee who cannot read Sanskrit but embroidered the entire Bhagwad Gita on a 280-foot cloth

Assam's master weaver, Hemoprova Chutia, has been honored with the Padma Shri for her extraordinary feat of hand-embroidering the complete Bhagwad Gita, along with other devotional texts, onto fabric ...
The Irish Times

Cursive Frankenstein – Frank McNally on the horrors of handwriting in middle age

One of the surprises of publishing a memoir last year has been the realisation that I may need to take writing lessons. No, I don’t mean lessons in sentence or paragraph construction (critics may have ...
CBC.ca

This B.C. teacher is teaching cursive — and helping students win national handwriting awards

Anyone of a certain age can remember finally grasping the concept of printing letters, only to have the bomb of cursive writing dropped onto your desk not long after. For some, cursive was a way of ...
GitHub

Ink/Stitch: An open source machine embroidery design platform based on Inkscape

Want to design embroidery pattern files (PES, DST, and many more) using free, open source software? Ink/Stitch aims to be a full-fledged embroidery digitizing platform based entirely on free, open ...
Reader's Digest

Here’s What Your Handwriting Says About You, According to an Expert

The way you dot your i’s and cross your t's means more than you may think. Here’s what handwriting analysis reveals about your personality. Human beings are complex, often confusing creatures. It can ...