A set of scruples badly worn

I started planning this on fathers' day, and I just finished it today. I killed a .5 Brause on it. :(

PH Martin's Bombay ink on Fabriano Tiziano Drawing paper.
Winsor and Newton silver ink is also mixed in to the Bombay, but it isn't visible in the scan.

I am sad about the last two lines, as I didn't do a practice of them, and it shows..

( calligraphy picture )

and playing with a pair of "distress ink" and a brown cartridge in my sheaffer pen.

( big picture ) Luxeuil was a French monastery founded in the v. late 6th century. They were pretty masochistic, even for monks. (work till you collapse, eat nothing but bark, etc.) Their script was very flowy and pretty. It was also fairly obnoxious to read, as the words all ran together. They also didn't believe in punctuation, and wrote with tiny, tiny nibs. (or feathers. Whatever.)

People in their own time period complained about their script.

I got to do the "project" part this weekend. The introductory paragraph of "the Caucus Race" from "Alice in Wonderland", with part of "The Mouse's Tail" as marginalia. Still need to write my part of the paper.

The picture is all fuzzy. :(
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So, I finally went to a calligraphy night, where I was shown a book that actually proves that spiral calligraphy is period. (in around 1500.)

I went home and looked it up on Amazon.

It's around $200.00 used. I am in much sadness. Or pain. Anyway, for the decently employed, I provide the following:

Pattern Poetry: Guide to an Unknown Literature (Hardcover)
by Dick Higgins
ISBN: 0-88706-413-2

It doesn't come up on http://www.abebooks.com/, but I'm OK with that.

Also, I wanted badly to go to the Ayreton Carnivale and Regional A&S, but I have the weekend class, instead. Foo. userpic is a clip of Zoing, From Girl Genius

Um, I did some flat peyote patterns over the break, but they're on the laptop.

I finally know how to do spiral calligraphy!! There are good directions in Janet Mehigan's "Mastering the art of calligraphy" ISBN: 0-681-45927-1

I got my copy at Waldens in the bargain section for about $7.00.

You want this book, for it is all sorts of cool.

If you have any interest in period pieces at all, you also want this one if it's still in print:

Marc Drogin "Medieval Calligraphy: It's history and technique" ISBN: 0-486-26142-5

The how-to in the Drogin book may not be great. I was told that he's left handed and writes upside down. *shrug* It's the pictures of extant period pieces that made it a required book in the SCA about ten years ago.

Also check out the textbooks for the "Early books and manuscripts" course I'm taking this term. Many of my friends are exceedingly jealous.:

Barbra A. Shailor "the Medieval book: Illustrated from the Beinecke Rare book and manuscript library" Isbn: 0-8020-6853-7

Christopher De Hamel "Medieval Craftsmen: Scribes ans Illuminators" ISBN: 0-8020-7707-2

Michelle P. Brown "Understanding illuminated manuscripts: a guide to technical terms" ISBN: 0-89236-217-0

Huh. Amazon has no pictures, and the Brown book doesn't even have an entry..

I did play with the spiral, but what I wrote isn't up for posting...