Fraktur: Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Learning the Craft (Heritage Crafts)

Acknowledged authors Hartung, Ruthanne wrote Fraktur: Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Learning the Craft (Heritage Crafts) comprising 104 pages back in 2008. Textbook and eTextbook are published under ISBN 0811734153 and 9780811734158. Since then Fraktur: Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Learning the Craft (Heritage Crafts) textbook was available to sell back to BooksRun online for the top buyback price or rent at the marketplace.

The Pennsylvania Dutch are noted for the beautifully designed and hand-lettered documents known as fraktur. These include birth and marriage certificates, family trees, bookplates, awards, and house blessings. Leading fraktur artist Ruthanne Hartung adapts the craft to modern tastes and needs in this practical how-to book, with information on tools, step-by-step instructions, ideas for design, lettering and coloring techniques, and a variety of projects. An assortment of traditional patterns to apply to personal frakturs are included.