From: owner-scribes@castle.org (scribes digest) To: scribes-digest@castle.org Subject: scribes digest V5 #81 Reply-To: Sender: owner-scribes@castle.org Errors-To: owner-scribes@castle.org Precedence: bulk scribes digest Thursday, March 15 2001 Volume 05 : Number 081 ======================================================================== 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. Re: [scribes]: Fwd: Hi & pigment question Re: Re: [scribes]: wax seal question slightly OTRe: [scribes]: Sulfur interactions... [scribes]: Gesso Re: [scribes]: Gesso ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 20:09:42 -0500 From: Danielle Nunn-Weinberg Subject: Re: [scribes]: Fwd: Hi & pigment question Greetings, Thank you. Now that I know how to reply to the list, I decided not to leave... However, I'm just now getting to the massive pile of email I accumulated while not having time to do anything about it! : ) >You can order Pergamenta from almost any of the on-line art sources listed >below. You can order their catalogs, too. > >http://www.johnnealbooks.com/cgi-local/shop.pl/page=index.html >http://www.danielsmith.com/ >http://www.paperinkarts.com >http://www.jerryscatalog.com Thank you! I've already ordered the paper and ink arts catalogue and have taken to leaving it on the kitchen table as a not so subtle hint to my DH.... >To turn dry pigments into paint, you will need distilled water, gum arabic >liquid (or glair, or egg yolk), and some sort of special mixing dish or glass >slab with a flat muller. I usually start with less than 1/8 tsp of pigment, >about 7 drops of gum arabic and then grind in a little 4-part unglazed porcelain >dish with a small glass muller. After it is mixed up good, I then add water. >RanthulfR uses a glass slab and a glass muller. Either way works. Thanks. That's nice and succinct. ; P Cheers, Gwendoline =================================================================== 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: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 20:11:35 -0500 From: Danielle Nunn-Weinberg Subject: Re: Re: [scribes]: wax seal question Greetings, > >> >> Gwen, >> The Kingdom of Ealdormere already has a wax seal. It just rarely gets used. >> Genevieve >> Ealdormere > Good to know. I am going to donate some wax I think. : ) > > Hey, Gwen, have you anyone in mind for making your Laurel scroll yet? and > when is your date? Inquiring minds and itchy fingers want to know..... *grin* My date is April 21st (Coronation) and Genevieve has the doing of the scroll...you can bug her. : ) Cheers, Gwendoline =================================================================== 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: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 21:26:20 -0500 From: Danielle Nunn-Weinberg Subject: slightly OTRe: [scribes]: Sulfur interactions... Greetings, >You may be also interested in scoring a copy of _The Physics >and Chemistry of Color_, by K. Nassau, 1983, John Wiley & sons. On a rather interesting and off topic note, if the author is Kurt Nassau, he has written a couple of excellent gemmology texts (also not for casual reading), particularly in the area of treatments and man-made stuff. Cheers, Gwendoline (a gemmologist employed in a computer company in day to day life) =================================================================== 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: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 18:44:51 -0900 From: "Darlene Cullor" Subject: [scribes]: Gesso Could someone please tell me again how to make your own gesso? I lost alot of my files recently to a computer crash, now I am ready to get back into the swing of things with the making of supplies! Thanks in advance Bianca =================================================================== 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: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 23:19:07 -0500 From: "Sally Burnell" Subject: Re: [scribes]: Gesso > Could someone please tell me again how to make your own gesso? > > I lost alot of my files recently to a computer crash, now I am ready to get > back into the swing of things with the making of supplies! Greetings, Bianca! Here is a recipe for gesso for raised gesso gilding. A more period recipe would've included lead, but since it's very toxic, this recipe excludes that ingredient in favour of greater safety: 1 T. Calcium Sulfate Dehydrate Armenian Bole to colour Take these ingredients and mix them in a mortar and pestle for 45 minutes to insure that they will be thoroughly mixed. Then add your wet ingredients, which are: 1 t. hide glue, diluted into 2 t. warm water (distilled water, NOT tap water!) 6-12 drops of warm honey, depending on the season of the year. More during the dry winter months, less during the warm summer months. Mix thoroughly in the mortar and pestle. Take a baby food jar which has been thoroughly cleaned (DO NOT use dish soap as it will leave a residue on it - preferrably clean with distilled water, again, for purity) and scoop your mixture into it, screw on the lid and put it someplace dark for 2 weeks, like a drawer. Check periodically and if bubbles develop, use earwax on the end of a toothpick to pop them. After two weeks, it is ready to use. You can use the remainder of an old batch to start a new one! Hope that helps! Good luck, and keep us posted! ~Saradwen Midrealm =================================================================== 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 V5 #81 ****************************