Re: [BKARTS] Nushu texts

[Marcia Moore <marcia@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Weren't they beautiful?
Marcia
On Apr 10, 2006, at 10:49 AM, CARMIN Jim wrote:

> Book artists may wish to take a look at the fascinating  
> introduction to
> Nushu texts in the latest issue of PRINT (Mar/April 06, pp. 56-61),
> "Flowers in a Gale," by Eve Kahn.
>
> "Nushu" or women's script in Mandarin is a special style of  
> writing, ten
> centuries old, where women could express themselves openly, apparently
> since men could not read the 720-odd characters.  Kahn's article shows
> several examples of this strange elongated script, in beautiful small
> booklets that artists may wish to consider in their work.
>
> More on Nushu here: http://www2.ttcn.ne.jp/~orie/home.htm
>
>    Jim Carmin
>    John Wilson Special Collections Librarian
>    Multnomah County Library
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>
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