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robertsloan2 [2007-09-30 14:58:37 +0000 UTC]

I like the layout you have for the compressed blackletter, and I think I may have to do something like that if I start cutting up my parchment to do the little sewn book... it'd work that way. I know I can get bookbinding stuff at Blick after I get the thing done, it should stay loose pages till then.

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robertsloan2 [2007-09-30 14:57:16 +0000 UTC]

Wow. You are actually making a bible with this. That's trippy.

I have a project like that, that I've procrastinated on because I'd have to write it too, a Pagan Book of Hours. I started it in this tiny sketchbook with a 1 1/2" x 2 1/2" miniature of waves standing for water, and that came out perfect, and I haven't done anything else in it. Looking at this, I am going at it dead wrong.

I need to dig out my parchment, since I have some, take the one page that came out ruddy perfect (yes it is in my gallery, posted it recently), copy the little waves thing and give it some text beyond a title, onto parchment, and paint it. Duh. Instead of trying to get each page perfect and perfectly in order inside an already bound book, treat the bound book as a sketchbook and put it on parchment pages, then bind them when it's done. Which would mean working out what's in it of course.

I haven't worked on it again because I didn't want to jack up the next page or have to take out pages, dumb me.

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waterdelph [2007-07-10 03:32:58 +0000 UTC]

Oh, this is very lovely! I hope you will post page 1 with the finished versal!

(the spelling is gum sandarac)

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