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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 holidays, but also works well any time of [...]]]></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 Uncial, a [...]]]></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.
This is one of the many versions of [...]]]></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.
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		<link>http://bygonearts.com/archives/299</link>
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		<title>Ellesmere Chaucer 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.  [...]]]></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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bygonearts.com/archives/92</link>
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		<title>Gesso</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I mentioned in my last post, I&#8217;m learning how to use gold leaf with a technique called raised gilding.  The cool thing about raised gilding is that the gold leaf is, well, raised &#8211; it is 3-D, so the light really glints off the gold.  Photographs don&#8217;t do it justice &#8211; if [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bygonearts.com/archives/86</link>
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		<title>Ruling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the biggest aesthetic shifts between medieval and modern book layout is ruling.  Medieval scribes would draw straight lines on their paper and on their margins to keep their writing straight, much like modern notebook paper.  Today, we consider these sorts of guide lines to be juvenile &#8211; only children write letters [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bygonearts.com/archives/70</link>
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		<title>Irish Hymn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I received an unusual and absolutely delightful custom order: a customer requested an Irish hymn for an Irish Catholic priest.  I did my best to make it look like a page from the Book of Kells: the initial &#8220;A&#8221; is borrowed directly from Kells. 
The text in Irish is:
Ag Críost an síol
Ag Críost an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bygonearts.com/archives/303</link>
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