Improve your lettering skills in any medium! Accomplish your hand lettering goals and make amazing personalized gifts and signs with flair! The ultimate guide to burning letters, this is a must-have resource for pyrographers of all skill levels to learn various hand-lettering techniques to apply on different surfaces. Opening with detailed overviews on safety, tools, basic pyrography techniques, pen tip styles, burning strokes, tonal values, and hand grips, also included are sections on three main pyrography media wood, leather, and artist paper. After learning how to work on each medium, this insightful guide then shows you everything you need to know about hand lettering with heat! You'll find tutorials on fill techniques, resizing letters, creating curved letters, fixing mistakes, and more. Templates for 10 fonts are provided, as well as a step-by-step practice project to build your skills, and five additional lettering projects to try. Finally, with this complete and comprehensive resource to learning and burning alphabets, renowned and award-winning artist Lora Irish takes you through how to prepare your chosen media to finish it with flair! Irish offers expert guidance on materials for pyrography, including preparing, cleaning, finishing, and sealing the surface. Improve your hand lettering skills to make beautiful customized gifts, signage, and other amazing calligraphy projects with Lettering on Wood, Paper, and Leather ! "Lora Irish has done it again! She has created a new book covering the art of burning letters onto your projects that is very easy to understand. Picking three popular pyrography mediums—wood, paper, and leather—Lora gives you the knowledge and projects to practice your lettering skills so you can enhance all your projects!" —Michele Parsons, Pyrography Artist, Author of Quick-Start Woodburning Guide and Leather Pyrography