From: owner-scribes@castle.org (scribes digest) To: scribes-digest@castle.org Subject: scribes digest V8 #75 Reply-To: Sender: owner-scribes@castle.org Errors-To: owner-scribes@castle.org Precedence: bulk scribes digest Wednesday, October 23 2002 Volume 08 : Number 075 ======================================================================== 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]: Creating French Culture.... Re: [scribes]: Gallery updated [scribes]: Walnut ink [scribes]: gesso ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:53:24 -0400 From: Fionnseach du Lochielle Subject: [scribes]: Creating French Culture.... The following link actually came across my SCA-Garb list....the topic was on kirtles and such...and as we are all aware, many a manuscript is used by the garb mavens as documentation of what they (kind of) looked like. ;) Anyway, I followed the original link (to a single image) up a couple of levels and thought I would pass on the finding. The online exhibition was apparently a physical exhibit in 1995. The link is: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/bnf/ The manuscripts cover a time period from the late 8th to the present. There are two sections which have some nice samples of MSs....even proof/evidence of purple vellum that was used in Northern Italy circa the 9th century. Your servant, Sister Fionnseach - -~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~- ~=Sister Fionnseach du Lochielle=~ Not to have, but to give; Chronicler/Web - Shire of Dernehealde Not to take, but to receive. Combat Scribe - Barony Middle Marches Pursuivant-at-Large - Middle Kingdom Protege of Master Brusten de Bearsul =================================================================== 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: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 11:24:31 +1000 From: Steve Roylance Subject: Re: [scribes]: Gallery updated hi The link is down at the moment as ever Thorfinn Tamberlin wrote: > m'lord the link would not work for me. I'm not > certain if this is my computer or the link. Hoping to > be of assistance. > > Tamberlin Lee > > --- Steve Roylance wrote: > > >hi > > > >I have updated my gallery of competition entries at > >http://www.corplink.com.au/~roylance/show.htm > > > >The competition this year was of a very high > >standard. > > > >as ever > > > >Thorfinn > >Stormhold, Lochac > >Melbourne, Australia =================================================================== 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: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 16:26:29 EDT From: Floriligeum@aol.com Subject: [scribes]: Walnut ink - --part1_cb.2a074523.2ae70e75_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Well, on the way home from my daughter's bus stop we collected a bucket full of walnuts. We did not have to reach for one and we barely made a dent in the pile of them by the sidewalk. Observations so far: They stain your hands good and quick. Betadine and walnut stain are the same color. Collect the broken and split ones, cause the whole ones splash when you hit them with a hammer. It really hurts when you mistake your thumb for a nut. Wear gloves unless you want brownish fingers. The water I poured over the split husks & walnuts is already stained pale greenish brown. We are going to try the slow, non cooking method. I put them in a large chipped enamel pot. When I can find some iron nails I will toss a few in. I told my daughter it would be Thanksgiving before it would be ink. If it is not ink by then we will cook it for a while. When we get to that point do I need to strain out the husks & nuts or cook them down too? If I start out with a bucket of nuts and 2 gallons of water should I keep it reducing until I have a small bottle's worth of ink or will that be too strong and I should aim at a few small bottles? Yours in service, Sarra the Lymner Caer Adamant (DE), East Kingdom MKA Sarah Dressler Sarra's Florilegium www.sarrasflorilegium.knownworldweb.com Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. There never was a good war or a bad peace. Benjamin Franklin 1706 - 1790 "To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains." Mary Pettibone Poole, A Glass Eye at a Keyhole, 1938 - --part1_cb.2a074523.2ae70e75_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Well, on the way home from my daughter's bus stop we collected a bucket full of walnuts.  We did not have to reach for one and we barely made a dent in the pile of them by the sidewalk.

Observations so far:

They stain your hands good and quick.

Betadine and walnut stain are the same color.

Collect the broken and split ones, cause the whole ones splash when you hit them with a hammer.

It really hurts when you mistake your thumb for a nut.

Wear gloves unless you want brownish fingers.

The water I poured over the split husks & walnuts is already stained pale greenish brown.

We are going to try the slow, non cooking method.  I put them in a large chipped enamel pot.  When I can find some iron nails I will toss a few in.  I told my daughter it would be Thanksgiving before it would be ink.  If it is not ink by then we will cook it for a while.

When we get to that point do I need to strain out the husks & nuts or cook them down too?  If I start out with a bucket of nuts and 2 gallons of water should I keep it reducing until I have a small bottle's worth of ink or will that be too strong and I should aim at a few small bottles?

Yours in service,

Sarra the Lymner

Caer Adamant (DE), East Kingdom
MKA Sarah Dressler
Sarra's Florilegium
www.sarrasflorilegium.knownworldweb.com

      
       Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
       There never was a good war or a bad peace.                        Benjamin Franklin 1706 - 1790
"To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains."
                                                                      Mary Pettibone Poole, A Glass Eye at a Keyhole, 1938 - --part1_cb.2a074523.2ae70e75_boundary-- =================================================================== 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, 23 Oct 2002 02:41:07 -0700 From: "Isolde26" Subject: [scribes]: gesso This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - ------=_NextPart_000_0017_01C27A3D.A3B902C0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Regarding gesso, can one layer more on after a coat has dried? I find = that I have thick and thin spots and I would like to get it more even. Any help would be appreciated. YIS, Isolde the Nimble Fingered An Tir. Tytyvyllus me admittere impellit. - ------=_NextPart_000_0017_01C27A3D.A3B902C0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Regarding gesso, can one layer more on = after a coat=20 has dried? I find that I have thick and thin spots and I would like to = get it=20 more even.
 
Any help would be = appreciated.
 
YIS,
Isolde the Nimble Fingered
An Tir.
 
Tytyvyllus me admittere=20 impellit.
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