scrolls from this weekend

[aryanhwy]

This weekend two more scrolls of mine were given out.

The first was (yet another) attempt at Book of Kells-style knotwork:



I'm moderately happy with it; it's nowhere near as complex as my exemplar, but it wasn't the complete disaster my previous attempt at knotwork was. And it was for someone with an early Irish persona, so even if it wasn't the most beautiful of things, it was still appropriate for his persona, which has got to count for something.

The second was for a friend with a 14th C German persona; diplomas of nobility in Germany date from that period, and I tried hard to find a text that I could modify, but was unable to in the time alotted, so I had to adapt the text from an earlier (12th C) creation of the duchy of Austria.

This scroll was so big that I couldn't fit it all on the scanner at once, so I have two images (with the top margin cropped), which I haven't gotten around to merging into one yet:




I got an email from Dominyk this morning thanking me for something so tailored to his persona, which was very nice! I'm quite happy with how it turned out.

Comments

[bend-gules.livejournal.com]

The German piece is fabulous! I haven't tried cadels yet, they look scary...you should be really pleased.
Does he have arms yet? will you finish the escutcheon?

[aryanhwy.livejournal.com]

Cadels are pretty scary; I found it really helped having my exemplar on hand to have something I could copy pretty closely. (Click on either of the pics to go through to the page where my docs & the exemplar are.) He doesn't have arms yet, though I expect to see a submission soon. Unless I can get down to Adamestor, I doubt I'll be able to paint them in for him, but I'm sure there's a scribe there who can do it.