The Abbey Studio, established in 1982 and located on Boston's south shore, in Hingham, Massachusetts, is a professional calligraphy studio.

We create hand lettered documents to recognize outstanding achievement, volunteer service, benefactors, retirement, distinguished service, and honorary degrees, as well as personal gifts of poetry, scripture and memorials.

Using the same materials and techniques that have been employed for centuries, we transform your words of tribute into a work of art that will be treasured and admired for many years.

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Book Arts School News! Discussions are under way to establish a Book Arts School in the Boston area. If you would like to be added to the list serve to receive future emails about this important development, send your email address to info@theabbeystudio.com.

Visit our blog at abbey-studio.com to find out what's happening at the moment. Please click the links to view recent newspaper articles published in the Worcester Telegram & Gazette and the Hingham Journal.

For those interested in learning the craft of calligraphy and gold leaf illumination, we offer courses in our studio classroom. Click Spring/Summer 2012 Courses o take a look at current course offerings, and registration for a pdf of the registration form. In addition to classes offered in our studio classroom, we also offer classes through North Bennet Street School in Boston (www.nbss.edu), the deCordova Museum in Lincoln, MA (decordova.org), the Danforth Museum in Framingham, MA (danforthmuseum.org), the Museum of Russian Icons in Clinton, MA (museumofrussianicons.org), and at Glastonbury Abbey in Hingham, MA (glastonburyabbey.org).

During alternating fall semesters, we offer a one-semester, full-time course in calligraphy, manuscript illumination and bookbinding. This course is a collaboration betweeen Maryanne Grebenstein and North Bennet Street School in Boston (www.nbss.edu). The next Manuscript Course offering will be Sept-Dec 2013. Visit our blog or click Manuscript Course for details.

We also conduct manuscript study trips to museums and libraries in the United States and Europe. We are currently in the planning stages for two European trips that will take place in 2012 and 2013. For details, click trip. The first trip will be to the South of France for a classroom abroad experience. The second trip will be a book trip, geared to those interested in viewing illuminated manuscripts. If you would like to receive information regarding these trips, please contact us at info@theabbeystudio.com. Please click trips for details.

Several times each year, we send email notifications regarding class schedules and museum/library trips. This list is never sold or used for any other purpose. If you would like to receive this information, please provide your contact info by clicking the mailing list link.

Please click the links below to view calligraphy products or for information regarding our classes and study trips.

Recognition Awards/Calligraphy Products

Calligraphy Classes and Manuscript Study Trips

Heart-lines Greeting Cards

A recent collaboration between Maryanne Grebenstein and Elizabeth Rideout is being sold through Kelmscott Bookshop in Baltimore, MD. Edgar Allan Poe's poem Annabel Lee has been hand lettered and gilded by Maryanne. Elizabeth completed the manuscript with a hand made case of marbled paper and silk over book board. Click the title page, below, to go to turninthepath.com for additional information, or this link to visit the Kelmscott Bookshop website for pricing.