Fraktur script

writing system

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display of folk art forms
- In folk art: North America
  …a notable body of art: fraktur (embellished documents), painted wedding chests, decorated ceramics (including elaborate pieces created for special occasions), unique barns with exterior painted symbols (“hex signs”), pictorial embroidery, weaving, and other forms.
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Gothic script
- In alphabet: Later development of the Latin alphabet
  …Germany, where it is called Fraktur script.
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Pennsylvania Dutch
- In calligraphy: Writing manuals and copybooks (16th to 18th century)
  …of the definitive version of Fraktur script, a combination of the rigid textualis quadrata and the more relaxed bâtarde. This long-lived style was used as late as the 19th century by some German speakers in the United States and Canada. In 1538 Neudörffer published the first copybook to use an…
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