Vintage calligraphy practice page with red repeating border motifs

Scanned instructional book/page showing seven horizontal rows of hand-drawn red border patterns (angled strokes, slanted bars, Greek‑key meander, interlaced...

• calligraphy practice
• border patterns
• decorative borders
• red ink
• lettering exercise
• vintage instructional page
• greek key
• braid motif
• repeating pattern
• pen strokes
• book/page
• printed serif text
• hand-drawn red pen strokes
• repeating border motifs

It is not wasted time practising patterns like these. They can be used to decorate a greetings card or as a border for a larger piece of work. Making up more complicated patterns from the various elements is fun as well as good practice.