thumbs up: penwork; thumbs down: Gothic calligraphy

[aryanhwy]

This was my project for Sunday:


Lindquistringes for Katherine Percival


A back-log Lindquistringes, based on British Library MS Arundel 134 f. 2, France, 2nd half of the 13th C. I'm much happier with how this penwork initial turned out (the ratio of white space to colored space in the inner bit is much closer to the original), though I still feel like I don't know how to finish off the ends -- my flourishes at the end of the vertical block aren't right.

And, man, Gothic hands are my downfall. This is a very sorry attempt. I just can't seem to keep all my angles the same and all my vertical lines straight. sigh.

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[aryanhwy.livejournal.com]

It's (pseudo-?)German for "Lindquist's ring". Lindquist was the modern surname of someone who was formative in the early years of the Principality; I'm a bit embarrassed to say I'm not even sure of the SCA name of the person it's honoring. I pronounce it roughly "Lindquist's ring-es", with a hard, pronounced 'g', but I don't know if real Germans would pronounce it differently.