Monograms combine two or more names into one design. Monograms are used in association with weddings and marriage certificates; as family crests; on letterhead, websites or business cards; or as logo designs.
As part of my design process I provide … Read More
YOUR NAME IN PERSIAN / FARSI / ARABIC CALLIGRAPHY: I will provide you seven different designs or design variations of your name in Persian or Arabic calligraphy. I can provide traditional calligraphy styles or creative design options. I do all … Read More
Persian Farsi Calligraphy
My goal is to provide you with calligraphic designs that you will love! I create calligraphy designs in Persian, Farsi, Urdu, Dari and Arabic for tattoos, publications, websites, logos, memorial stones and tablets, signet rings, jewelry, marriage … Read More
For today — براى امروز — my reminder to take things one day at a time.Read More
Handmade paper with bird image and calligraphy by Stewart J. Thomas.Read More
There comes that moment when you’ve done the prudent planning, and yet still, enter that place Rumi says “from now on I’ll be mad.” Mad not as in angry, but as in irrational. We have water, candles, flashlights, food. Took down the precarious tree, put up sandbags . . . in Florida, awaiting Hurricane Irma.Read More
Rumi’s poem:
ز اول که حدیث عاشقی بشنودم
جان و دل و دیده در رهش فرسودم
گفتم که مگر عاشق و معشوق دواند
خود هر دو یکی بود من احول بودم
Coleman Barks translation:
The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.
Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere.
They’re in each other all along.
My translation:
When I first heard [the] story of love
I wore out soul and heart and sight on its path.
I said: are lover and beloved two?
[The] self two were one; I was seeing doubleRead More
Alchemy of Love کيمياگری عشق Persian/Farsi in modified Arabic Kufic script.Read More
Good thoughts, good words, good deeds; the three pillars of Zoroastrian faith.
پندار نیک، گفتار نیک، کردار نیک (pendâr-e nik, goftâr-e nik, kerdâr-e nik)Read More
An amazing number of images and symbols are packed into this custom-designed hand cut ketubah. Papercut ketubah are very popular, but with the advent laser-cutting, it is increasingly rare to find one that is hand cut. I designed this ketubah … Read More
