This was actually over a week ago now, so my post is a bit late.

We'd booked early for this year's kingdom university, taking advantage of the lovely Buckden Towers in Cambridgeshire. This proved to be a Catholic centre with an associated charity to support the restoration of the space, and a very handsome space it was. See pics on the (somewhat ( Read more... )

All shire fencing kit sent to Yule Ball by the Blessed Folks Who Own Vehicles (BFWOV ( Read more... )

Scroll part 2( still more photos )

Going on a scroll's journey...

Scroll is in Latin, and uses a 12th c Romanesque letter with just a little bit of gold.

Sorry they're not as sharp as I'd like. Looked perfectly sharp when I took them!
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Scriptorium on saturday in Oxford: very fine,  small but perfectly formed attendance. Mixed results on teaching quill cutting, splendid class by nusbacher on writing in textura quadrata - enough so that I want to try it again.

badgersandjam was her usual thorough self and ensured it ran smoothly. With the small crowd we wrapped up early-ish, though still managed to ( Read more... )

Working against the clock, I didn't have time to take pictures - but aryanhwy did a lovely job. It looks even better in her pictures than I remembered it when I made it.

This writ was to mark HE aryanhwy's winning the kingdom arts and sciences competition. She is thus the kingdom artisan for the coming year. It's not really an award from the Crown because they ( Read more... )

Highlights were: a great feed at Vitus and Isabel's house on Boxing day (including their family, Ozbeg and Katherine, and Paul and Anne), a visit with Sir Nasr and Countess Ellie on the weekend, and not doing very much at all for a few days ( Read more... )

This week I discovered the extent of a collection in the British Library that I'd dipped into before, but hadn't examined carefully.

They're a group of books from Arnstein, created in the late 12th century, and they have some of the richest and most cheerful and engaging dragons I've seen.

This group includes the Arnstein Bible, MS Harley 2798 ( Read more... )

Marcus of Stormarn's GoA,

a fun Hedgepig day scroll, Now with new pictures! courtesy lord Nicholas

and a Fox

now on Dragon Scribes.

Snippet of a scroll for presentation at Crown. This is part of my resolution to use quills, except in dire need for speed.

This piece doesn't have the sharpest thin lines, but it's good overall. I just couldn't get the thin lines continuously.


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