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		<title>Medieval Wedding Invitations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re looking for custom medieval wedding invitations, look no further! I design and create wedding invitations for themed weddings: medieval, Celtic, fairy, Renaissance, Lord of the Rings, or whatever fantasy world you have in mind. I can work in a variety of medieval and fantasy styles, so your invitations can set the tone for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medieval Wedding Invitations for Chelinda and Chris</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just finished creating medieval wedding invitations for a wonderful couple, Chelinda and Chris. The invitation itself is a 5&#215;7 card with an Irish blessing on the outside, and the details of the wedding on the inside (in the images, I have blurred the wedding date). There is also an RSVP postcard, and a map [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pangur Ban, calligrapher&#8217;s cat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I am addressing envelopes for a medieval wedding, and I am being supervised by my 8-month-old kitten, Pangur Ban. It is delightfully appropriate that Pangur Ban should watch me doing calligraphy today: I am writing in Insular Minuscule (well, my slightly modernized, post-office friendly version thereof), the script in which I found his name. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bygonearts.com/archives/332</link>
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		<title>Irish Blessing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[May love and laughter light your days, and warm your heart and home. May good and faithful friends be yours, wherever you may roam. May peace and plenty bless your world with joy that long endures. May all life&#8217;s passing seasons bring the best to you and yours. This Irish blessing is perfect for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bygonearts.com/archives/329</link>
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		<title>Vocatus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Vocatus adque non vocatus, Deus aderit.&#8221; [Bidden or not bidden, God is present.] These Latin words of hope and inspiration were carved over the doorframe of famous psychologist Carl Jung&#8217;s house and on his gravestone. The text is reproduced as if it were from a medieval Irish illuminated manuscript. The Latin text is written in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bygonearts.com/archives/325</link>
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		<title>Wiccan Rede</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bide the Wiccan law ye must, In perfect love, in perfect trust. Eight words the Wiccan Rede fulfill, and ye harm none, do as ye will. And ever mind the Rule of Three, What ye send out comes back to thee. Follow this with mind and heart, And merry ye meet, and merry ye part. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bygonearts.com/archives/322</link>
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		<title>Deep Peace</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A customer contacted me to make a gift for a friend of hers who is turning 100. She asked me to write this beautiful Celtic blessing, which I had not heard before &#8211; I am glad to have discovered this text! The pictures are of the unfinished work in progress.]]></description>
		<link>http://bygonearts.com/archives/299</link>
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		<title>Ellesmere Chaucer: Medieval Manuscript Reproduction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In November of 2009, I finished a full-scale reproduction of a folio of the Ellesmere Chaucer manuscript, one of the earliest and most important manuscripts of Chaucer&#8217;s Canterbury Tales. I stove to be as absolutely authentic as possible in creating this reproduction. I spent weeks studying and practicing the Anglicana script of the original scribe [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bygonearts.com/archives/96</link>
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		<title>Iron Gall Ink</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In an effort to get closer to the medieval techniques that I emulate in my calligraphy, I have started using Iron Gall ink. This was the ink most commonly used in the Middle Ages (and beyond). It&#8217;s interesting stuff: you start with oak galls, which are round growths found on oak trees. Oak galls appear [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bygonearts.com/archives/93</link>
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		<title>Anglicana Script</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been working on my Anglicana script lately. The term &#8220;Anglicana&#8221; actually describes a whole family of scripts that were in vogue in late medieval Britain. British scribes were looking for a script that was easy to write small and quickly, so by the fourteenth century they had developed a distinctly English script. It [...]]]></description>
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