The Beauty of Calligraphy

CALLIGRAPHY is one of the beautiful art of writing that has developed hundreds of years ago. However, today, people are generally more familiar with the culture of Islamic calligraphy.
The reason, many use writing calligraphy arabic drawn from the treasury of Islam, both the Qur'an and Hadith, which are beautifully painted and precision. Beautiful arabic writing is often seen clinging on the walls of the mosque or the small mosque in the form of wall hangings, wood carvings, or paintings.
One of the calligraphic artist is Anshory Al Muhajir, the owner of Islamic Calligraphy Divani. This 26 year young man was about five years ago to his calligraphy wall decor business.
It may be, the art of calligraphy decorating the grain ditekuni Muhajir is the art of calligraphy. The reason, Muhajir direct painting or calligraphy on the walls of the mosque wall using wall paint. "Calligraphy is a very specific type, so that professional players could be counted on the fingers," said Muhajir, also graduates of Al-Quran in Jakarta.

If anything, the cake market is fairly lucrative business because a lot. Let's say, for a new mosque and small mosque or the mosque and the small mosque that need re-decoration. Nor, for private homes who want to display the Islamic image.
Financially, this kind of venture capital is not large. Except for the sizable capital skills. "Perpetrators of this business need to understand the Quran and Hadith, the art of calligraphy, measure and understand the techniques of materials science, and to promote smart," said Muhajir who had received his several calligraphy courses in Sukabumi and Jakarta this.
For understanding the Quran and Hadith, is absolutely necessary. chapters each of which will be decorated mosques have different needs. "If the mosque was built at the law office for example, the verse that there should be tailored to the law. If the office of the bank, use the verse about the economy. If the housing, put the verses on prayer call or virtue," continued Muhajir
Then, players must master the technique of measuring. That is, the measurement of the long paragraph with the available wall area. Would that be painted field elongated shape (run) or a square, or oval as in the dome of the mosque. "Art is really different than painting free. Because of the size of the letters should be precise," continued immigrants.
Another complexity, this calligraphy painting nature directly to the wall. Thus, if something goes wrong, the painter should remove the error by giving the block wearing black paint. That is, happens twice workmanship. "To paint, we use the car that Mowillex brand arkrilik best quality," beber Muhajir.
Because of complicated, immigrants admitted only accept a maximum of two projects in the calligraphic work a month. One time the project could take between a week to seven weeks depending on the level of complexity. "For me pengerjaanya assisted four employees," he said.
For the basic price, ranging from Rp 250,000 per run and began to Rp 500,000 per square meter. "Most high, the total for a mosque in Bekasi area I'd be up to USD 125 million," said bungus of four siblings.
From these basic prices, immigrants can get a margin between 60% to 85%. While the rest for paint raw material costs, transportation costs and food costs. "As a work of art, calligraphy decorating the nature of this flexible, not like selling a product," explained Muhajir.