Fraktur

If you’re looking for a book that will greatly help you along on your own Fraktur designing, inking, lettering, and painting journey, this one definitely fits the bill. Step-by step instructions for several projects that show you the entire artistic process in detail, plus lots of motifs like flowers, fruit, birds, hearts, angels, houses, borders, etc. for inspiration (or tracing) so that you can mix-and-match them to create your own compositions, as well as a birth certificate, a house blessing, family trees (two different designs), and a family records design that are all full-sized and traceable, plus a Fraktur alphabet to practice (also traceable), both upper and lower case, which Ruthanne designed to be easier to read than the traditional Blacklettering (but still looks enough like traditional Blacklettering to give it that authentic Fraktur feel).

So there’s literally everything you’d need to be inspired to design your own pieces, or for you to trace straight from the book to makesomething super-quaint for your home.–Jim and Lori “Amazon.Com Review”

Ruthanne Hartung was a fraktur artist for more than thirty years. She was a juried member of the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen and was selected as one of the top 200 traditional American craftsmen by Early American Life magazine.