From: owner-scribes@castle.org (scribes digest) To: scribes-digest@castle.org Subject: scribes digest V2 #95 Reply-To: Sender: owner-scribes@castle.org Errors-To: owner-scribes@castle.org Precedence: bulk scribes digest Saturday, June 20 1998 Volume 02 : Number 095 In this issue: [scribes]: nib/paper question Re: [scribes]: Gender Bias ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 07:57:41 -0400 From: Donna Kenton Subject: [scribes]: nib/paper question Hi, all, I'm currently working with Marc Drogin's book on Gothic Littera Bastarda (p. 155). More specifically, I want to do the lettering on the facing page, something he calls Secretary Bastarde. I've been following his exemplar, and I can get my letters to look like his. However, I really don't think they look as much like the original as I want. I'm using Mitchell nibs, and tried #4, 5, and 6. Then I remembered a comment once made to me by Mistress Katerina Helena about pressure on the nib creating a lot of the letters, so I tried that. I used a very flexible point (couldn't tell you the brand), and lo and behold, the letters started looking like the original letters, not Mr. Drogin's -- which is what I want. However, this nib is really chewing up the paper (Crane's Artificial Parchement). And there's the problem. I want to do this hand. I really, really want to do it with pressure, so that it will look like the original. Should I change paper? What kind of nibs do you recommend? *Any* suggestions would be helpful! Rosalinde ____________________________________________________________________________ Lady Rosalinde De Witte/Donna Kenton * donna@dabbler.com * http://www.dabbler.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 08:40:15 EDT From: FITCHYBEAR@aol.com Subject: Re: [scribes]: Gender Bias In a message dated 98-06-19 23:01:18 EDT, ulfaidan@unm.edu writes: << Baron up in Couer d'Ennui? Can't think of who that is...Yoshi?? I dont know. They say the memory is the second thing to go... I can think of a couple > whose names I can't remember, but who did nice work... color-blind guy > down in Vatavia... Stephen Ironhand... > Oh I forgot Stephen got his for Scribing! Oops. V'tavian? Um...there was a color blind lady (Kerare) down there who scribes, dont know if she is laureled or not. Well and there are always Bob and Gerald. Like I said, there are some but not as many....not none. I dont think Richard B. is active much anymore, nor is Bob? I havent had contact with him since a year or so before I left KC. But neither he nor Gerald were laureled in Calontir. >> Is it me or do this read like getting road directions in the country???? :) JimBear (totally lost and making great time too......) ------------------------------ End of scribes digest V2 #95 ****************************