From: owner-scribes@castle.org (scribes digest) To: scribes-digest@castle.org Subject: scribes digest V2 #57 Reply-To: Sender: owner-scribes@castle.org Errors-To: owner-scribes@castle.org Precedence: bulk scribes digest Saturday, June 6 1998 Volume 02 : Number 057 In this issue: Re: [scribes]: my own scroll Re: [scribes]: Another request for comment ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 19:07:21 +0100 From: David Columbus Subject: Re: [scribes]: my own scroll >I had the great honor to receive two awards in one reign. For a >rather complicated reason, their majesties who gave me a Purple Fret >(Midrealm service award) for doing so much C&I stuff for them didn't >get to give me a scroll for it. > >I considered shopping around for someone to do it: e.g., I considered >asking my Laurel. I then looked around my living room and saw: > >my Willow done by a previous student >my (first) Purple Fret done in a manner 100% period (and period for >me) on parchment with period pigments, etc. >my lord's Purple Fret done by his squire brother >my lord's Willow done by my squire brother > >No where in my house is any original artword of MINE. > >So, I'm doing the scroll for my Purple Fret. I would really like to >have some of my own art in my house and I just never seem to get >around to doing anything just for me. I'd like to drop a note in regards to this doing your own scroll that people might not think about. Instead of doing a scroll for yourself, why not find a saying, a quote, a parable, or anything else you like and calligraph and illumination it. For the past few years I have been doing various projects that are not associated with SCA award scroll. I have them hung up in my house. They hang side-by-side to the scrolls that I received from other people. Occassionally, someone really likes one of the things I have hanging in my house. I look at it and figure it's been on my wall long enough. I then find a good time to present it to them as a present. In that way, it makes me have to do another piece in order to fill the blank spot on the wall. Some things to think about are Aesop's fables, Zen stories, and Bible verses. One piece that will NOT ever leave my wall is my "Where the Wild Things Are" piece. Don't pigeonhole yourself with 'doing your own scroll' There's many other items to do in order to have your own art hanging on your wall. B'wana Christofano - ----- "Be willing to try the ideas that come to your mind, no matter how foolish they may seem. Allow yourself to fail" ---- Thomas Ingmire ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 23:55:42 -0700 From: "Thomas Brownwell" Subject: Re: [scribes]: Another request for comment Greetings Holly. The Ivy and Bar looks lovely. The calligraphy is stylistically modern, though it is quite close to the 16th Century Italian/Humanist hand (aka Italic) that was used during Shakespear's time in England. For this partucular illumination style though the usual hand is Gothic Littera Quadrata (Square Gothic), or a swashy variant called Gothic Batarde (Bastard Gothic), very common in13th-15th C France. As for "Laurel", it's an honorary title given to somewon who has achieved Master's level in a particular medieval art or science as judged by the current Laurels, and approved by the reigning King & Queen (of course there are regional variations on how they are chosen...). Two related / equivalent titles that you might occasionally hear are "Pelican" (for service-related skills) and "Knight" (for prowess in heavy weapons, our particular martial art). Keep up the good work! - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Douglas Brownell AKA Thomas Brownwell, Calligrapher, brownwell@home.com Dancer,Silversmith,Singer,Cobbler,... San Diego, CA Barony of Calafia, Caid The 4 elements = good physics stuff:: Or,a fountain, a chief rayonny gules. Goutte enough herald:: (Fieldless) A goutte barry wavy azure and argent. ------------------------------ End of scribes digest V2 #57 ****************************