Tim Brookes
@timbrookes.bsky.social
Founder of the Endangered Alphabets Project, writer, wood carver, tennis player, lover of good bread and good cheese. Author most recently of Writing Beyond Writing and An Atlas of Endangered Alphabets. endangeredalphabets.com
Great interview by Type Radio of The Hague in the Netherland, an excellent introduction to my work with the Endangered Alphabets Project. Check it out at typeradio.org#/573
Typeradio — Now we are talking.
Now we are talking
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November 11, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Great interview by Type Radio of The Hague in the Netherland, an excellent introduction to my work with the Endangered Alphabets Project. Check it out at typeradio.org#/573
Only ONE WEEK LEFT in my Fond Farewell Moving Sale. I've added some new items at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2025/10/31/w... , so check them out--but soon!
November 10, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Only ONE WEEK LEFT in my Fond Farewell Moving Sale. I've added some new items at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2025/10/31/w... , so check them out--but soon!
Heads up! My moving sale will end on November 17th, when the movers arrive to pack up my stuff for shipping across the pond. I have added a couple more items, so check out the feast at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2025/10/31/w...
November 8, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Heads up! My moving sale will end on November 17th, when the movers arrive to pack up my stuff for shipping across the pond. I have added a couple more items, so check out the feast at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2025/10/31/w...
This, one of my last 4 American carvings, is going to looking incredible. “Believe in yourself “ in Mongolian, and the wood is an incredible (but not endangered) hardwood called Chakte Viga, or orangeheart. Bear in mind it will be five times as colorful and vivid when finished….
November 8, 2025 at 1:32 AM
This, one of my last 4 American carvings, is going to looking incredible. “Believe in yourself “ in Mongolian, and the wood is an incredible (but not endangered) hardwood called Chakte Viga, or orangeheart. Bear in mind it will be five times as colorful and vivid when finished….
About half the carvings in my Fond Farewell Moving Sale have been snapped up. If you're interested, you'd better hurry over to www.endangeredalphabets.com/2025/10/31/w... toot sweet.
November 6, 2025 at 10:40 PM
About half the carvings in my Fond Farewell Moving Sale have been snapped up. If you're interested, you'd better hurry over to www.endangeredalphabets.com/2025/10/31/w... toot sweet.
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Tim Brookes' New Book, By Hand, Explores the Impact of Handwriting on Community and Language Preservation | MultiLingual
Is handwriting about to become a lost art in the United States? Award-winning author Tim Brookes tackles this question in his new book.
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November 3, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Reviewers! My new book By Hand, an exploration of the value of the handwritten word, will be back from the printers in time for the pub date of 11/15. If you would like me to send you a copy of the digital edition for review purposes, let me know and I'll send one out stat.
November 3, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Reviewers! My new book By Hand, an exploration of the value of the handwritten word, will be back from the printers in time for the pub date of 11/15. If you would like me to send you a copy of the digital edition for review purposes, let me know and I'll send one out stat.
Just added to my extended moving sale: A carpe diem proverb in Tai Tham. Walnut, roughly 48"x 14." One fascinating feature of this carving is that one of the panels has a bullet embedded in it, presumably fired into the tree before it was cut down. www.endangeredalphabets.com/2025/10/31/w...
November 3, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Just added to my extended moving sale: A carpe diem proverb in Tai Tham. Walnut, roughly 48"x 14." One fascinating feature of this carving is that one of the panels has a bullet embedded in it, presumably fired into the tree before it was cut down. www.endangeredalphabets.com/2025/10/31/w...
Reminder: I'm moving back to England, so I need to lighten my load even more, and I'm winnowing down my collection of carvings and Alphabets merchandise still farther. This is, of course, good news for you. Check out the bargains at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2025/10/31/w... and please share!
November 2, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Reminder: I'm moving back to England, so I need to lighten my load even more, and I'm winnowing down my collection of carvings and Alphabets merchandise still farther. This is, of course, good news for you. Check out the bargains at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2025/10/31/w... and please share!
I'm moving back to England, so I need to lighten my load even more, and I'm winnowing down my collection of carvings and Alphabets merchandise still farther. This is, of course, good news for you. Check out the bargains at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2025/10/31/w... and please share!
October 31, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I'm moving back to England, so I need to lighten my load even more, and I'm winnowing down my collection of carvings and Alphabets merchandise still farther. This is, of course, good news for you. Check out the bargains at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2025/10/31/w... and please share!
Great news! Thanks to Esteban Kong, the Script Keeper Network website is up and running at www.scriptkeepers.org. It will fill out and enrich over the coming weeks, but check it out to see what we have begun!
Script Keepers Network – Safeguarding Scripts
Script Keepers Network Unites People To Protect And Revitalize The World’s Endangered Writing Systems.
www.scriptkeepers.org
October 23, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Great news! Thanks to Esteban Kong, the Script Keeper Network website is up and running at www.scriptkeepers.org. It will fill out and enrich over the coming weeks, but check it out to see what we have begun!
Just a reminder that this exhibition is already in motion in The Hague. I'm going to be speaking here on October 26th about this and that, with startling f=references to Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner and questions about "Where Does Writing Come From?" www.westdenhaag.nl/exhibitions/...
West Den Haag > projects > Alphabetum 15
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October 17, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Just a reminder that this exhibition is already in motion in The Hague. I'm going to be speaking here on October 26th about this and that, with startling f=references to Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner and questions about "Where Does Writing Come From?" www.westdenhaag.nl/exhibitions/...
This is the view you could have had this morning if you had bought our house, NOW REDUCED BY $25,000. www.zillow.com/homedetails/...
October 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
This is the view you could have had this morning if you had bought our house, NOW REDUCED BY $25,000. www.zillow.com/homedetails/...
If you are interested in our summit but can't make the event, (a) it will be recorded and (b) you can submit a question or comment ahead of time to tim@endangeredalphabets.com. But if you can make it, register free at us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
September 27, 2025 at 8:04 PM
If you are interested in our summit but can't make the event, (a) it will be recorded and (b) you can submit a question or comment ahead of time to tim@endangeredalphabets.com. But if you can make it, register free at us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Writers! Linguists! Scholars! Pedants! Join us next weekend to sort out the world's array of methods of denoting rhythm, emphasis and meaning that we simplistically sum up as "punctuation." Free registration at us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
If you are interested in punctuation and spacing in text, from any world writing traditions, please join us for @timbrookes.bsky.social's discussion event:
Sunday 5th October, 12.00 ET / 17.00 BST
Registration link in next comment.
Sunday 5th October, 12.00 ET / 17.00 BST
Registration link in next comment.
September 27, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Writers! Linguists! Scholars! Pedants! Join us next weekend to sort out the world's array of methods of denoting rhythm, emphasis and meaning that we simplistically sum up as "punctuation." Free registration at us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Join me online on Tuesday, 30 September, 2.35 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) at the Calligraphy Summit where I’ll be giving a talk called “Carve a Letter, Save the World: the story of the Endangered Alphabets Project.”
Sign up at
go.eventraptor.com/summit/the-c.... Please RT!
Sign up at
go.eventraptor.com/summit/the-c.... Please RT!
September 25, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Join me online on Tuesday, 30 September, 2.35 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) at the Calligraphy Summit where I’ll be giving a talk called “Carve a Letter, Save the World: the story of the Endangered Alphabets Project.”
Sign up at
go.eventraptor.com/summit/the-c.... Please RT!
Sign up at
go.eventraptor.com/summit/the-c.... Please RT!
FINAL DAY OF THE SALE! Endangered Alphabets furniture, merchandise and carvings at absurd prices! Check them out at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2025/08/25/m...
September 21, 2025 at 12:03 PM
FINAL DAY OF THE SALE! Endangered Alphabets furniture, merchandise and carvings at absurd prices! Check them out at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2025/08/25/m...
Only TWO DAYS LEFT of my moving/clearance sale, and while some items have been snapped up by alert shoppers already, I've hunted through basement and attic and added a couple more. See all at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2025/08/25/m...
September 19, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Only TWO DAYS LEFT of my moving/clearance sale, and while some items have been snapped up by alert shoppers already, I've hunted through basement and attic and added a couple more. See all at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2025/08/25/m...
Really looking forward to taking part in this groundbreaking talk/exhibition in the Netherlands. Check it out at www.westdenhaag.nl/exhibitions/...
September 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Really looking forward to taking part in this groundbreaking talk/exhibition in the Netherlands. Check it out at www.westdenhaag.nl/exhibitions/...
Only 9 days of my moving sale left! I've reduced prices still more, and added tables that are the best Alphabets work I've done. Find them at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2025/08/25/m... .
Please take advantage of this opportunity--and also make it easier for me to downsize and move!
Thanks so much.
Please take advantage of this opportunity--and also make it easier for me to downsize and move!
Thanks so much.
September 13, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Only 9 days of my moving sale left! I've reduced prices still more, and added tables that are the best Alphabets work I've done. Find them at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2025/08/25/m... .
Please take advantage of this opportunity--and also make it easier for me to downsize and move!
Thanks so much.
Please take advantage of this opportunity--and also make it easier for me to downsize and move!
Thanks so much.
This could have been your view this morning if you had bought our house--PRICE NOW REDUCED BY $25,000! Check it out at www.zillow.com/homedetails/...
September 12, 2025 at 12:02 PM
This could have been your view this morning if you had bought our house--PRICE NOW REDUCED BY $25,000! Check it out at www.zillow.com/homedetails/...
ENDING SOON! My sale of Endangered Alphabets merch will end September 21st. Every item has been marked FURTHER down to a ridiculous level for clearance, and I've added three new carvings. Check it all out at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2025/08/25/m...
September 8, 2025 at 6:14 PM
ENDING SOON! My sale of Endangered Alphabets merch will end September 21st. Every item has been marked FURTHER down to a ridiculous level for clearance, and I've added three new carvings. Check it all out at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2025/08/25/m...
These are the kinds of view you get from our house, which is now on the market at an absurdly low price, at www.zillow.com/homedetails/...
September 2, 2025 at 6:21 PM
These are the kinds of view you get from our house, which is now on the market at an absurdly low price, at www.zillow.com/homedetails/...
Reminder: I'm holding a moving sale of Endangered Alphabets carvings and merchandise. Scoop up absurd but amazing deals at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2025/08/25/m...
Moving Sale! – Endangered Alphabets
www.endangeredalphabets.com
September 2, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Reminder: I'm holding a moving sale of Endangered Alphabets carvings and merchandise. Scoop up absurd but amazing deals at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2025/08/25/m...
Heads up, my European friends! In October I'll be involved in events in London ( www.barbican.org.uk/.../voiced-t.... ) and The Hague ( www.westdenhaag.nl/exhibitions/... ). I'd love to meet face to face if you're in the area. DM me!
September 1, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Heads up, my European friends! In October I'll be involved in events in London ( www.barbican.org.uk/.../voiced-t.... ) and The Hague ( www.westdenhaag.nl/exhibitions/... ). I'd love to meet face to face if you're in the area. DM me!