The Workshop

A small Madrid-based educational project.

The project began in Madrid in 2025 after repeated practice sessions where learners could see that a word felt uneven but had no reliable way to decide whether the cause was pressure, slant, spacing or proportion.

Practice design

Lucía Navarro

Builds pressure and movement exercises.

Letterforms

Álvaro Martín

Reviews proportions and joins.

Composition

Elena Prieto

Develops spacing and layout tasks.

Materials

Diego Sanz

Tests paper, nib and ink explanations.

Support

Marta León

Handles access and learner feedback.

Why the project was built

The original frustration was not a lack of calligraphy examples. There were already many alphabets to copy. The difficulty was that a learner could spend an evening repeating a page without knowing which movement was producing the inconsistency.

Línea Serena was organised around diagnosis: show a small technical contrast, ask the learner to identify it, constrain the next exercise and provide a simple way to compare results. The project remains intentionally small so the material can stay focused on the mechanics of practice.

How material is reviewed

New exercises are checked for three things: whether the instruction isolates a real variable, whether the learner can observe the result without specialist judgment, and whether the exercise can be completed with a reasonable home practice setup.