Have Pens Will Dazzle presents:
With Nina Tran
Gothic Textura — a script famed for its dramatic elegance and historical gravitas, yet brimming with creative potential.
Despite its reputation as a rigid and formal bookhand during the 11th-13th centuries, Gothic Textura is quite versatile and lends itself to a wide range of variations and hybridizations.
The only limiting factor is our imagination.
Join Nina Tran as she shows you how to master textura minuscules — one bold, angular stroke at a time.
What You'll Experience...
Day One: Immerse yourself in the foundational beauty of standardized Textura minuscule. We’ll break down every detail—pen angles, stroke weight, connections, proportions, and spacing—so you gain the confidence and control to master this iconic script.
Day Two: After writing words and sentences, we'll step beyond the basics. Learn how to introduce expressive pen twists, creative weight shifts, and playful branching variations, transforming the “formal” Textura into a script that is uniquely yours.
Class recordings will be available to view until October 20, 2025.
NOTE: Nina will be offering a Textura Majuscule Bootcamp a few months after this class, so stay tuned for details!
Zoom Class Schedule
Textura Minuscule Bootcamp will consist of two 2.5-hour class sessions:
Session 1: Saturday, August 23, 2025
Session 2: Sunday, August 24, 2025
Times: 9am-11:30am US Pacific time
Level: ALL (Beginners Welcome!)
Cost: $120 USD
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SUPPLIES: After you register, you will receive a confirmation email that includes a link to your Have Pens Will Dazzle® student portal. You can login to download the Supplies List found at the bottom of the Welcome Module.
We'll use the Padlet App to post homework for Nina's comments. Posting on padlet is optional by highly encouraged!
CLASS RECORDINGS: We will post the class recordings and teacher demo sheets in the student portal the day after class. The recordings will be available until October 20, 2025.
REFUND POLICY: All sales are final. Fees paid for this online workshop are non-refundable and non-transferable to future workshops.
About Your Instructor, Nina Tran
Nina Tran is a Los Angeles-based instructor whose initial love for letters has blossomed into a life-long pursuit of learning and understanding what it means to lead a creative life. She teaches a variety of scripts, including Copperplate, Spencerian, Gothic Textura, Gothicized Italic, Fraktur, as well an assortment of monoline letter styles. When she is not fiddling with the alphabet, she enjoys reading, knitting, and being out in nature.
About Your Tech Host, Maureen Vickery
Maureen Vickery is a professional calligrapher and engraver with PenDance Studio in Houston, Texas. She also is the former publisher and editor of Calligraphy Crush Magazine @calligraphycrushmagazine.
Her specialties include wedding calligraphy and hand engraving on glass and metal gift items. She loves working in both historic and modern calligraphy styles. Her main focus is pointed pen lettering, but she also enjoys creating compositions with broad edge pens, markers, and paint brushes.
Maureen's work has appeared in Dasherie, UPPERCASE, Expression, Letter Arts Review, Modern Luxury Weddings Houston, and Weddings in Houston magazines, as well as Kitty Burns Florey's book Script & Scribble. She is a member of the Houston Calligraphy Guild, Society of Scribes, Friends of Calligraphy, and IAMPETH.
You can find her on Instagram at @pendancestudio.