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You may not know this, but before I was a quilter, I was a calligrapher. I studied for several years with a professional calligrapher and did all sorts of certificates, signs, cards and framed pieces. So you can understand the pitter patting of my heart when a stray CNN link lead me to this. Whoa baby – upclose and personal with a copy of the Gutenberg Bible. Even though the book was, after all, the first undertaking in moveable type as illustrated here, the quality of the font used and of course the fine nature of the illuminations and rubrics just makes my heart sing.

So thank the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin for making the decision and using technology so all of US can enjoy this milestone in history.