From: owner-scribes@castle.org (scribes digest) To: scribes-digest@castle.org Subject: scribes digest V5 #32 Reply-To: Sender: owner-scribes@castle.org Errors-To: owner-scribes@castle.org Precedence: bulk scribes digest Saturday, February 24 2001 Volume 05 : Number 032 ======================================================================== To unsubscribe from this list, send email to with unsubscribe scribes-digets in the body of the message. Leave the subject line blank. Do not include any additional text. Re: [scribes]: time for an intro ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 07:18:20 EST From: KMcWhyte@aol.com Subject: Re: [scribes]: time for an intro Lady Bronwen & Lady Finnarwen...Welcome to the list! I am fairly new to the list as well (2-3 months?), and am a scribe for the Kingdom of the East, specifically over on Long Island, New York (or as Fran Drescher from 'the Nanny' says... "Lawn Guysland, New Yawk"... Thank God we don't all sound like that!). I've been scribing since grade school (8th grade), as a hobby, and scribing for the SCA for the last 8-9 months. I've been inspired from some of the posts to this list, to expand the styles I use for my scrolls, albeit the majority of my creativity stems from my years in 'art school' (local colleges). Scribing across the SCA is different depending on which Kingdom you're in, Lady Finnarwen... Based on what I've seen in the last 2 1/2 years I've been a member of this great Society, East Kingdom (eastern NY, parts of Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, western PA; all of Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, Maine, Rhode Island, New Jersey, and even some (all?) of Delaware) has a range of freedom for scrollmaking, within the usual rules -- there's a series of wordings to choose from for most scrolls, but this isn't to say that we can't make up our own wordings. As with the illumination, we have the option of which techniques we wish to use. Not all Kingdoms have these choices; others, due to availability of time and/or the ratio of scribes to non-scribes, provide "blank scrolls". These are pre-printed, in which the scribe paints in the line art (similar to a coloring book, only with better art than a coloring book), and the appropriate names where the blanks are, leaving the s! ignature to the royals, as usual . Then you have the scribes who make their own pigments, inks, and anything else that can be made by hand, or just buy the materials at the local art shop. The whole process is as simple or as complicated as the scribe doing the work wishes to make it. All in all... I enjoy my work, and try to make it just as enjoyable for the recipient. As time has worn on, my scrolls have improved gradually; some due to knowledge I have gleaned from this list (Thanks Lady Caelainn!). :) Good luck to both of you in your scribing! - --Kayleigh McWhyte, Mercenary Scribe Barony of An Dubhaigheainn, East Kingdom (E.Frank, Long Island NY) PS: (sidenote) I saw a book at Borders fairly recently that I considered buying before I realized I didn't have $40 to spend on it immediately. Can anyone give me a 'rating' on Patricia Lovett's "Calligraphy and Illumination" ? Thanks!!! =================================================================== To unsubscribe from this list, send email to with a blank Subject: line and unsubscribe scribes in the body of the message. Do not include any additional text in the body. ------------------------------ End of scribes digest V5 #32 ****************************