Workshop Description:

Saturday,  1^st August 2026

Come and enter the wondrous, bizarre world of Cadels, the ornate initial letters of the Gothic era. They are a wonderful and eye-catching way to decorate gothic lettering.

If you dance with gothic, you will waltz with a cadel! If you happen to think they’re too intimidating, they are not as difficult as they seem. We will learn to construct them stroke by stroke, using marks already in your calligraphic arsenal.

They are like building a house – laying down a foundation, bricking up the walls, sliding a roof across, adding the wiring…all in one afternoon! Old-fashioned? No one does them these days? We will revive them, and wow people with their opulent flamboyance!