A Traveling Scribe’s Tools
You live in the middle ages (500 AD to 1500 AD) and you are a a scribe traveling on your way to the Lord’s keep or perhaps on pilgrimage and […]
Tag Archives: Scribe
The Portable Scribe
This post was inspired by a question asked on Facebook. Roughly the question was, “What do you use as a scribe when you’re traveling to events?” There were a lot […]
Making a Scroll
Scribes of the Middle Ages were the authors and copy machines of their time. Take all the documents that scribes wrote and we find that writing court documents, let alone […]
Right Side Of My Desk – Scribal Tools and Materials
Thank you all for your response to the first stop in this tour of my scribal desk. Today we will be doing down the right side of my scribal desk. […]
The Sinister Scribe – Lefty Calligraphers
Right side and left side used to be called “Dexter” and “Sinister” and had no particular connotations. Today in the SCA there are people who refer to left handed scribes as […]
Combat Scribing – Or Calligraphy in the Field
Combat is not something normal associate with calligraphers and scribes so the term “Combat Scribing” probably seems a bit out of place. Anyone who has had to do it however, […]
Ink and Scribal Resources
Not only do I make ink, but I sell it as well. I don’t sell very much of it because I give away about 90% of my ink. The other […]
What else is going on out there?
I decided that I wanted to use my blog to promote what other people are doing. After all, I’m just one person and what I do, while interesting, isn’t the […]
Carolingian Minuscule
Calligraphy. The word itself means beautiful writing. There are many kinds of calligraphy from each of the expanses of the globe. Of course in the western world we use some […]
Byland Abbey Ink Stand
If you haven’t heard of this thing, don’t worry, most people haven’t. Here is a .pdf of an article about it in an Archaeology Magazine I was interested in it […]
