Posted on March 28, 2010
Medieval Wedding Invitations
If you’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… Read More
Posted on March 11, 2010
Pangur Ban, calligrapher’s cat
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… Read More
Posted on December 4, 2009
Iron Gall Ink
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’s interesting… Read More
Posted on November 20, 2009
Anglicana Script
I have been working on my Anglicana script lately. The term “Anglicana” 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… Read More
Posted on March 26, 2009
Buying Parchment
As a follow-up to my post about parchment, I have noticed that a lot of people find my site by doing internet searches about where to buy parchment. Well, there are two places you can buy parchment in… Read More
Posted on January 4, 2009
Scribes and Scribal Tools
For your browsing pleasure, here are links to a bunch of medieval images of scribes and scribal tools. You’ll notice that in almost all the images, the scribe is holding a quill pen in one hand, and a… Read More