[Antir_scribes] Charter design criteria for Sven & Signy

Tue Oct 3 10:00:48 PDT 2006

CHARTER DESIGN FOR THE REIGN  OF SVEN & SIGNY 

Greetings good scribes of  An Tir! At this time we are looking for charter 
designs for the following:  Lion’s Cub, AoA’s, Jambes, Gouttes, and  the Hasta 
Leonis.  We are looking  for these to be submitted by November  1, 2006.   
Please keep the following  elements in mind when designing charters.    
1.   Charter size: 11 X 14 paper, please  leave a one-inch border all around. 
2.   Charter designs may be horizontal  or vertical. 
3.   Please make sure all the lines are  dark and thick, at least .5 mm or 
thicker so they show up during the copying.   
4.   Please make sure that no two black  lines are closer than 1/16th of an 
inch unless they are filled  in.  5.         Please design charters with clear 
elements.  This will facilitate painting and  embellishing. 
6.   Charter designs may be borders,  panels, top/bottom or both sides.  You 
may use up to half the page for your design if you so choose.  At  least half 
of the area inside the border is reserved for text, signatures, and  seals. 
7.   Please remember while creating your  charter that there should be enough 
elements so that each charter has depth and  richness.  This may be the only  
scroll some folks ever receive! 
8.   Please allow room for the kingdom  seal.  The great  seal impression is 
2 -3/4  inches  in diameter (seals can be  a little larger) .  Do not draw  in 
a circle for  the seal.  There is also available a  smaller signet seal 1 ½ - 
2 inches, if your design or text does not  allow room for the larger  seal.  
You may inscribe the word  “seal” in the area, but please do not color in the 
 area. 
9.   Leave room for the signatures of  the King and Queen.  A minimum  of 
1-1/2 inches high and 2 inches wide for each signature .  Please do not write in 
Their  names.  Do not draw a line for Their signatures.    
10.  Their  Highnesses’ wish to  have mostly  charters of Norse design  but 
would like to receive a few done in the Landsknecht period style as  well.  I 
have included Landsknecht  links graciously supplied by Dame Keterlin at the 
end of this  missive. 
11.  If the award carries a badge, please  incorporate the badge into the 
charter design. 
12.  If you do not do  calligraphy, that’s okay.  Please  submit and we’ll 
arrange for calligraphy to be done.  For those who wish to do calligraphy,  
please contact me for charter texts. 
13. If you plan on doing the calligraphy, allow a full line for  recipient’s 
name.  The date line  should have the numeral after A.S. blank, as we will be 
beginning a new year  during this reign. 
Please drop me an email if you are  planning on designing a charter so we can 
assure that an assortment of award  charters is received.   When  sending 
charter designs to me, include your contact information and the source  and time 
period of your work.  This  will give the painters a chance to review the 
source material for accurate  painting. 
Contact info: 
THL Abigail the Mad,  Royal Scribe to  Sven & Signy,  mka Terri Kemmis. 
PO Box 1391, 11705 N. Wilson  St. Sp A4, Mead, WA  99021 
509-466-0332 home, 509-768-1740 cell, _terkemm at aol.com_ 
(mailto:terkemm at aol.com)  
Landsknecht Links 
The  woodblock prints done for Maximilian are in three works. The Triumph of  
Maximilian contains, The Procession, Arch, and Chariot. There was also a  
Funerary procession which I have not looked into at this time. Each of the three  
are made up of multiple prints, several hundred in the first  two. 
Fine Art  Museum of San  Francisco Image  base 
_http://search.famsf.org:8080/search.shtml?keywords=Hans%20Burgkmair_ ()  
I just  finished a veritable stack of research for said images and this was 
the best  source I found. You can click on the images and then get zooms and  
prints... 
You will  want to look up artists Hans Burgkmair, Hans Spriningklee, Albrecht 
Durer,  Albrecht Altdofer, Lenard (Lohenard & other spellings) Beck, Wolf  
Traut, Hans Weiditz, Jorg Kolderer und Hans Sebald Beham, and so  on. 
_http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/compass/ixbin/goto?id=OBJ2502_ ()  This  
is the British museums digital archive of the Triumphal arch. Limited zooms  
available and print quality is low. 
_http://www.artbma.org/paintedprints/html/pp11.html_ ()  short  information 
about colored prints of the arch. 
_http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/d/durer/2/12/8triumph/index.html_ ()  
Some  nice details from the arch and a brief intro to Durer. 
_http://durer.szepmuveszeti.hu/eng_durer.html_ ()  Possibly the most  
complete collection of these woodcuts, unfortunate bug/limitation with zoom and  
print process 
Here are  some other links that may be helpful as well. 
_http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/dres/dres3.html_ ()  informational. 
_http://www.beerstein.net/articles/alpha.htm_ ()  nice  article with samples 
on old German alphabet/letter forms 
_http://www.omniglot.com/writing/german.htm_ ()  self  explanatory 
_http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/10700/10788/german_10788.htm_ ()  some  nice 
capital letters 
_http://www.st-max.org/OLD_SITE/todesengel_woodcuts.htm_ ()  Nice  collection 
from numerous sources of woodcut figures 
_http://www.ubs.sbg.ac.at/sosa/webseite/hsabb.htm_ ()  Manuscripts 
_http://www.gutenbergdigital.de/gudi/eframes/index.htm_ ()  Gutenberg  Bible 
_http://www.dartmouth.edu/~speccoll/westmss/lg_LS_15_r.shtml_ ()  Charles  V 
Grant of Arms (After Maximilian) 