Calligraphy, literally "beautiful writing," has been appreciated as an art form ... A typical brush consists of a bundle of animal hairs (black rabbit hair, white goat hair, and yellow weasel hair ...

It contains 13 horizontal bands of black-and-white calligraphy carefully ordered ... intricately pasted calligraphic cut-outs of Urdu letters jut from handcrafted wasli paper like a small, bristly ...