THE BOMBAY LETTERING COMPANY - Giving Life to your Words

By BWA Envoy
January 24, 2022
2 Minutes Read

Calligraphy is not just the art of beautiful handwriting, but a precision-based skill that requires knowledge inspired by the ancient scriptures of the world. Mumbai-based Sanjana Chatlani started her journey into the world of calligraphy in 2017. She hoped to find a meditative escape from her hectic day-to-day in the corporate sector working as a marketing executive with Moet Hennessy and ended up finding her passion.

Within the first year of starting her venture “The Bombay Lettering Company” (www.bombaylettering.com) in 2018, she shot to fame as the calligrapher on-site for the wedding of Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas. While that experience certainly helped business and built her a certain reputation, over and above the hard work, she credits her success partly to her extrovert nature, professional candour and networking skills and partly to the goodwill of family and friends for their ever-present support. Today, she works with a team of 5 women and offers her clients the full experience from ideation to execution of hand-scripted lettering, personalized illustrations, printing, and packaging.

In just 4 short years this remarkable young woman has managed to introduce, popularize, and educate the people about the elegant script of Copperplate Calligraphy, tied up with international suppliers to provide quality supplies, and built a clientele in the luxury sector working with brands like Google, Cartier, Rolex, Jimmy Choo, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Dom Perignon and many more. She's even managed to make her mark in the entertainment industry as she is currently working with Deepika Padukone designing her custom stationery.

Despite having a flourishing business already, she still believes in lifelong learning. She started her learning under Masterpenwoman Barbara Calzolari, continues to upgrade her skills, and is soon planning to attend a 12-week course called “The Foundations of Calligraphy” in England studying western calligraphy under the tutelage of Mr Ewan Clayton. She will be the first person from India to attend it.

All, while gearing up to launch her offline course “The Copperplate Collective” in March 2022.