From: owner-scribes@castle.org (scribes digest) To: scribes-digest@castle.org Subject: scribes digest V4 #7 Reply-To: Sender: owner-scribes@castle.org Errors-To: owner-scribes@castle.org Precedence: bulk scribes digest Sunday, October 15 2000 Volume 04 : Number 007 ======================================================================== To unsubscribe from this list, send email to with unsubscribe scribes-digets in the body of the message. Leave the subject line blank. Do not include any additional text. [scribes]: Pens Re: [scribes]: Pens ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 21:04:04 PDT From: "Diane Karpinski" Subject: [scribes]: Pens Greetings to All Scribes, A gentlelady in my Barony asked me for information that I haven't a clue where to find the answer... How does one make reed pens for scribing? She has the idea to use as an A & S project, but not the direction where to start to get her research. She and I would greatly appreciate any information and/or direction to get her started. So far she has been unable to locate anyone in AnTir with this knowledge although I have no idea how far afield she has looked. H.L. AElfwynn Fiske, Barony of Stromgard, An Tir _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. =================================================================== To unsubscribe from this list, send email to with a blank Subject: line and unsubscribe scribes in the body of the message. Do not include any additional text in the body. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 00:14:59 -0500 From: "Helen Schultz" Subject: Re: [scribes]: Pens Hello AElfwynn: A reed pen is cut the same way as a quill is cut. There are instructions in a couple well-known scribal books, most notably, "The Calligrapher's Handbook," which is edited by Heather Child (ISBN:0-8008-1198-4) and "The ART of Calligraphy..." by David Harris (ISBN: 1-56458-849-1). Both of these books can be found or ordered from any bookstore. It is way too involved to try to explain it with just words, you need to see either photos or drawings of the technique. Hope this helps. KHvS - ----- Original Message ----- > > A gentlelady in my Barony asked me for information that I haven't a clue > where to find the answer... How does one make reed pens for scribing? She > has the idea to use as an A & S project, but not the direction where to > start to get her research. She and I would greatly appreciate any > information and/or direction to get her started. So far she has been unable > to locate anyone in AnTir with this knowledge although I have no idea how > far afield she has looked. > =================================================================== To unsubscribe from this list, send email to with a blank Subject: line and unsubscribe scribes in the body of the message. Do not include any additional text in the body. ------------------------------ End of scribes digest V4 #7 ***************************