From: owner-scribes@castle.org (scribes digest) To: scribes-digest@castle.org Subject: scribes digest V2 #1139 Reply-To: Sender: owner-scribes@castle.org Errors-To: owner-scribes@castle.org Precedence: bulk scribes digest Wednesday, October 13 1999 Volume 02 : Number 1139 In this issue: Re: [scribes]: Quill Pen experiment! Re: [scribes]: Quill Pen experiment! [scribes]: CrossWord puzzle word ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 18:26:22 -0700 From: Shawn Legere Dunham Subject: Re: [scribes]: Quill Pen experiment! I have seen Mairi make quills. She soaks them for a while, drys them, then tempers them in hot sand. She had a nice pen knife but I have seen scalpels used as substitutes for pen knives before. I saw a decent explanation is a small book on calligraphy I can't remember the name of at the moment(it was black soft bound about 7x7 in size). There is also a neat site on quill making, but it is in Italian. I can't find the url right now. Bri ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 18:27:07 -0700 From: Shawn Legere Dunham Subject: Re: [scribes]: Quill Pen experiment! Has any one ever tried pheasant feathers? Bri ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 19:55:52 -0700 From: Doug Brownell / Thomas Brownwell Subject: [scribes]: CrossWord puzzle word Hello everyone I was curious if anyone knew the answer to the following: A 5 letter word -- a medieval merchants guild -- known letters are: __A__S__ The question was posed on a grade 7 history class crossword -- I think it's *not* quite fair :-) Yours Thomas - -- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Douglas Brownell AKA Thomas Brownwell, Calligrapher, brownwell@home.com Dancer,Silversmith,Singer,Cobbler,... San Diego, California Barony of Calafia, Caid The 4 elements = good physics:: Or, a fountain, a chief rayonny gules. Goutte enough herald:: (Fieldless) A goutte barry wavy azure and argent. ------------------------------ End of scribes digest V2 #1139 ******************************