a new book on fruit trenchers!
A new book on fruit trenchers has been published recently. It’s a tiny little book about one woman’s quest to create a set of her own trenchers as a master project for her Diploma in Calligraphy. I’m tempted to buy a second copy and cut it up to use as paste-on trenchers. Would that be wrong? The only part that gives me pause is that she used a set of ten as her model, so I'd always feel like I was missing two.
You can buy your own copy of Ann Frances Hall's Elizabethan Roundels on Amazon UK, with shipping to the USA it costs about 15 pounds/23 dollars. There’s a few pictures on her website, http://www.elizabethanroundels.co.uk/index.html. The set she used as a model is in the St Albans museum, but they have no pictures of it on their website (there's a picture of 4 of the original trenchers in the book). It's a single belt, red line set like the one at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (64.101.1566-1577), but uses the Birmingham posies.