A most well kept secret

[liadethornegge]

One of the things that I started doing on my scrolls is sign them somewhere in the border with a ligature LT. It's a sort of maker's mark I hit upon not long after I chose my society name. The horizontal "floor" stroke of the L becomes the "roof" over my T.

This is not something that I advertise with big drums, and when I add it on my work I try to put it someplace where it will blend in. It amuses me to know that it is signed, but that not everyone who looks at it will recognize it as a signature. I vary on my success in that. Sometimes, I do so well, that I can hardly find it myself once I am finished.

This last point has me less amused, as I try to hunt out the maker's mark on my online gallery of scrolls. Outsmarted myself on some occasions - unless I've forgotten to sign some of my scrolls. This is not an altogether unlikely scenario, although once I determined that I should add this mark on my scrolls I have kept it in mind when finishing them. Therefore it irks me that on some of the scans or photos of my finished scrolls I cannot find the mark.

I found this out, as I used (abused, I should say) picasa's people tagging system. It is meant to be used to find faces. I bent it to my will to highligt my maker's mark where I could find it. You, the reader, might find it in the gallery. And if you spot an untagged mark, let me know?

Comments

[hobbitomm.livejournal.com]

Well, project 1 looks like it has a makers mark bottom right, but it's not a LT.

Project 2, on the left hand margin, where there's a small outbudding of gold, near the bottom of the dark blue, it looks as though something is written within the gold outbudding. Could that be LT?

[liadethornegge.livejournal.com]

aha - you spotted some thank you! On the very first scroll I used my "normal" mundane signature JeT. So I went ahead and tagged it as a maker's mark too.

Second scroll - that's not a ligature, that's just a loop of the border line :)

Thank you for taking me literally.

[hobbitomm.livejournal.com]

Project 5 I'm not sure about.... but I _think_ I can see an LT in the border, just to the left of where it says 'ndomet harmed' on the line above the blurred out recipient name. It's not fashioned the same as your usual one, but with an L and T intertwining amongst the folliage.

[liadethornegge.livejournal.com]

That is very very subtle. You have awesome eyes and deducing skills to figure that out, as any King of love and beauty must. I thought I had hidden it completely. Yes, that's right, let's call it deliberate *cough*

[hobbitomm.livejournal.com]

*laugh*

It was more that it was the _only_ leaf which did a complete turn to horizontal, and formed an L, so I looked for a T adjacent.