TRUE LOVER'S KNOT

In 18th and early 19th century America, popular amongst some Pennsylvania Quakers, this form of handmade love token included a penned message within mazelike linear bands enclosing English text. It is possible to follow the text along more than one path and still come out with a sensible message. To read the text from any entry point, one rotates the token.

Wednesday, March 11, 2015

The Smartest Man in the World reads Hugh Pugh aloud on his Podcast

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A couple of Thursdays back on a late February evening my devoted, tolerant husband Frank accompanied me to one of my many fetishized podcast...
Monday, June 11, 2012

The Retronaut

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The True Lover's Knot became a part of a virtual time capsule at "The Retronaut" in March of this year: http://www.retronaut...
Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Another decade older and still charming!

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This fine example of calligraphic American folk art turns 210 years old Friday, December 9th!

This Ring is round And hath no end…

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The True Lover's Knot "turns" 210 years old this Friday, December 9th. Hugh Pugh, the pen-artist, signed and dated the artif...
Monday, November 22, 2010

"Knote-Cards"

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Lover's Knot Stationery

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The Lover's Knot has proved so inspirational to me, that I designed and had printed blank notecards featuring Hugh Pugh's unique g...

Letters of Note Blog Entry for Monday, 11.22.10

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I heard about this interesting blog out of Manchester, England, called Letters of Note last week, so I took the initiative to write to the ...
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Longtime Graphic Designer with a second career in Kitchen Design; Wife 2.0; Mother of 1/Stepmother of 2, Aunt & Great Aunt, "Baby" Sister, Amateur family researcher. Fraktur and Font Fanatic.
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