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liadethorneggeWe had a scriptorium this weekend in Aros. It was the best ever. Started on Friday by meeting at the University Library where they have some thousand medieval manuscripts. We were eleven women who met up there, got a quick tour of their exhibit, then we were herded "backstage" where we got to look at and handle letters and manuscripts from the 9th century onward. There were four or five separate Award of Arms and one large bound book of correspondence between the Swedish King at the time and Queen Elizabeth.
The manuscripts were set up in a room, about fifteen or so of them from different time periods (as I said) with books of hours, law-texts as well as a couple of books explaining latin grammar and other scholarly subjects.
The Friday was capped by a large Tea at the event autocrat's place - which was very very lovely and quite enjoyable.
Saturday we started at 9 am - meeting up at the basement space rented (quite a large space with a small kitchen etc) and did scribal things until approximately 8.30 pm. We had quite a few beginners (seven), and Anna held a beginner's class where they got to paint an initial of their name. The rest of us (four) did our own stuff. I worked on my eighth scroll, which had gotten put on hold, and I got a fair amount of work done on it, including gilding.
We also got treated to a short demo on how to mix and use egg-tempera paints. How to mix and suchlike, plus an example of how quite thick and covering the white egg-tempera could be. Lovely for whitework if you have the pigment.
Throughout the day we ate alot of food and ended with Sushi for dinner!
On Sunday we started again at nine. Me and Sara walked from where we live to the site (took about twenty minutes) and we did our illumination until half past noon when we had lunch then cleaned up the place since the landlord had rented out the site to a children's birthday party starting at the time that we had previously said we would end! That kind of sucked, but on the plus side, we were not charged rent for the second day.
I had brought with me my scribal desk and had to show it off in all its nifty packable, stackable, transportable glory. And I got a few of the people so interested in it that they asked how much my father wanted to make them one.
So all in all, a fantastic little get-together. Fantastic.
Oh yes, I got pictures too
The manuscripts were set up in a room, about fifteen or so of them from different time periods (as I said) with books of hours, law-texts as well as a couple of books explaining latin grammar and other scholarly subjects.
The Friday was capped by a large Tea at the event autocrat's place - which was very very lovely and quite enjoyable.
Saturday we started at 9 am - meeting up at the basement space rented (quite a large space with a small kitchen etc) and did scribal things until approximately 8.30 pm. We had quite a few beginners (seven), and Anna held a beginner's class where they got to paint an initial of their name. The rest of us (four) did our own stuff. I worked on my eighth scroll, which had gotten put on hold, and I got a fair amount of work done on it, including gilding.
We also got treated to a short demo on how to mix and use egg-tempera paints. How to mix and suchlike, plus an example of how quite thick and covering the white egg-tempera could be. Lovely for whitework if you have the pigment.
Throughout the day we ate alot of food and ended with Sushi for dinner!
On Sunday we started again at nine. Me and Sara walked from where we live to the site (took about twenty minutes) and we did our illumination until half past noon when we had lunch then cleaned up the place since the landlord had rented out the site to a children's birthday party starting at the time that we had previously said we would end! That kind of sucked, but on the plus side, we were not charged rent for the second day.
I had brought with me my scribal desk and had to show it off in all its nifty packable, stackable, transportable glory. And I got a few of the people so interested in it that they asked how much my father wanted to make them one.
So all in all, a fantastic little get-together. Fantastic.
Oh yes, I got pictures too
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Date: 2004-05-13 02:32 am (UTC)Well, I don't see it as patience-trying at all really. And I can be very impatient sometimes. I don't know why that is. I -do- get impatient about ruling everything out, or sketching it out to start with. I want that part to be over with quickly so I can get to the fun bit, i.e. adding colours.
And of course the calligraphy. I am so not good at it and really -should- practice the one style I can do, as well as learn more styles. I'm just lazy and such when it comes to calligraphy - I want to be good right now! Without having to work on it!
This might be because you can't really hide the mistakes in calligraphy while a little flaw in the painting part is much more easily covered over.
Oh well. I just know it's fun! And you can't ever be impatient with fun!
So, did you go to Egils yet? Or has it not happened? I'm waiting impatiently for pictures and a description of the event!