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A Traveling Scribe’s Tools

December 24, 2015by Ian the Green 13 Comments

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 […]

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Scribal Materials and Tools, Uncategorized

The Portable Scribe

November 12, 2014by Ian the Green Leave a comment

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 […]

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Miscellaneous, Scribal Materials and Tools

Making a Scroll

March 9, 2014by Ian the Green 2 Comments

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 […]

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Calligraphy, Ink, Manuscripts, Miscellaneous, Projects, Scribal Materials and Tools

Right Side Of My Desk – Scribal Tools and Materials

February 23, 2014by Ian the Green 4 Comments

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. […]

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Scribal Materials and Tools

The Sinister Scribe – Lefty Calligraphers

October 22, 2013by Ian the Green 8 Comments

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 […]

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Calligraphy, Taking the Next Step - Calligraphy

Combat Scribing – Or Calligraphy in the Field

July 27, 2013by Ian the Green 3 Comments

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, […]

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Calligraphy

Ink and Scribal Resources

March 21, 2013by Ian the Green Leave a comment

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 […]

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Ink, Scribal Materials and Tools

What else is going on out there?

March 6, 2013by Ian the Green 5 Comments

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 […]

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Miscellaneous, Projects

Carolingian Minuscule

February 4, 2013by Ian the Green 6 Comments

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 […]

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Calligraphy, Manuscripts

Byland Abbey Ink Stand

December 12, 2012by Ian the Green 8 Comments

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 […]

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Calligraphy, Ink, Scribal Materials and Tools

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