Mujezinovic Calligraphy
Calligraphy in inlaid wood
Letters cut from one wood and set flush into another: Arabic script, Fraktur, Celtic uncial and Japanese brush characters, made by hand in my workshop.
One word, four scripts
Peace
The idea that holds this site together: one word, peace, in four scripts. Salām in Arabic, Friede in German Fraktur, Síocháin in Irish uncial, and 和 (wa) in Japanese.
Set in type here. The pieces in wood will follow.
The four scripts
For each script I tell what drew me to it, a little of its history, and what I made from it.
Arabic
Thuluth: Allah, Bismillah, short prayers and names.
Open page →Fraktur
House blessings and family signs in blackletter.
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Uncial: names and words for weddings.
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Single brush characters, translated into wood.
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First piece
اللَّهُمَّ اهْدِنِي
Allahumma ihdini
“O Allah, guide me.”
A short prayer in Arabic script, 49 × 49 cm, in two versions: dark letters on a light field, and light letters on a dark one.
More about Arabic calligraphyA woodworker, not a scholar
I am not a calligrapher or a scholar of these scripts. What I bring to them is the wood.
Each letter is cut from one wood and inlaid into another, flush with the surface. The writing becomes part of the wood rather than being painted or burned onto it. I work with many woods, among them walnut, maple, oak, wenge and padauk, and for each piece I choose the colours that carry the writing.
Buying and ordering
The pieces are sold through CherryCut, where you can also ask for a name or a word in the script of your choice.
Wood panels without lettering, such as Flow and Fracture, are at Reihax.