Who wants to be a scribe? Feel free to use this page for sharing resources, tips, plan scribal meetings or classes, Q&A, or just post pictures of your work.

Calligraphy

• The Golden Section  - To explain, the Golden Section is the area where Caligraphy should begin in a medieval manuscript. It's believed that a 1.618 ratio is the most attractive ratio to the human eye, and using this ratio, calligraphers in the past separated the manuscript pages using the formula outlined at this website. It's not as difficult as it looks, and it will give your illumination a very period look if you should use this process. Remember that it will slow you where the calligraphy goes.... not the illumination.
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Illumination

• Scroll Blanks 101 by Elizabeth de Nevell
• Completing the Lochac Pre-printed Award of Arms Scrolls - Interesting information from our brethren to the way, way, way south... aka Australia. There are some great bits of information here, but for those interested in just creating scroll blanks ignore this author's insisting that you do the calligraphy first. In the Middle Kingdom, one does not have to do calligraphy in order to send in a scroll blank.