microcalligraphy means micrography (ancient Jewish art form). Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 82 out of 100.
Why this word is great
MICROCALLIGRAPHY — [Noun] An art form, historically Jewish, in which minuscule, often sacred, Hebrew script is arranged to form intricate decorative patterns or representational images. From the English combining form micro- ("small") + calligraphy (from Greek kalligraphia, "beautiful writing"). Unlike a "calligram" (a general play of text-as-image) or "illumination" (the adornment of a page with pigment and gold), microcalligraphy is the image itself, painstakingly woven from the very words it illustrates. It is the silhouette of a leopard formed from thousands of letters of the Book of Esther, a floral border blossoming from the Song of Songs, and a geometric lattice holding the universe of a psalm within its lines—a devotion that finds the monumental within the infinitesimal, making ornament inseparable from meaning.
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- micrography (ancient Jewish art form)