<div>If you're not a scribe and all that sounds daunting, you could just purchase your favorite scribe a gift certificate. Online art supply places that scribes use include Paper & Ink Arts, John Neal Booksellers, Dick Blick, and Sepp Leaf. (YMMV) Locally, the CMU art store or Artist & Craftsman Supply at Wightman & Hobart in Squirrel Hill are also good.</div> <div> </div> <div>Karen</div> <div> </div> <div><BR><B><I>Raven <hraefnn@yahoo.com></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Hi all,<BR><BR>If you are looking for a way to thank a scribe for a<BR>scroll you received, want to encourage a budding (or<BR>long time) scribe, would like to donate scribal gear<BR>to a kingdom or baronial gift basket, or have started<BR>looking for next year's 12th night presents for that<BR>special scribe in your life, art store sales are great<BR>places to
go.<BR><BR>Here's a short list of appreciated gifts:<BR><BR>+ 90 pound or more, hot press (smooth) paper. This can<BR>come is big sheets or pads. White or off-white is<BR>most useful. Black or burgundy can be a special<BR>treat. (Colored vellum is period.)<BR><BR>+ Gum Arabic<BR><BR>+ Ox Gall<BR><BR>+ Small sable brushes, especially ones that form a<BR>curved point when wet. Think sizes 00 to 2, YMMV.<BR><BR>+ Art pencils of different hardnesses. I link H or HB<BR>but YMMV. <BR><BR>+ White erasers or gummy erasers<BR><BR>+ Small white palettes<BR><BR>+ T-square and other cork backed rulers or straight<BR>edges.<BR><BR>+ A variety of calligraphy nib holders. Avoid the ones<BR>with the attachment on the side. That's for an out of<BR>period script.<BR><BR>+ India ink, Higgins Eternal ink, or walnut ink<BR><BR>+ Small nibs that aren't Speedball nibs. Most<BR>calligraphers start out on Speedball, so it is a treat<BR>to receive something different.<BR><BR>+ Blotting paper.
Scribes, especially calligraphers,<BR>can put this between their work and work surface to<BR>pick up drips and smears.<BR><BR>Why isn't paint on this list? Because paint has color,<BR>many modern shades of which don't imitate period<BR>pigments. It can be a hard thing to choose. Besides,<BR>this barony is blessed with a supplier of period<BR>pigments.<BR><BR>Raven<BR><BR>----------------------------------------------------------<BR>And this above all to thine own self be true.<BR>- Shakespeare, "Hamlet"<BR><BR><BR><BR>____________________________________________________________________________________<BR>Get your own web address. <BR>Have a HUGE year through Yahoo! Small Business.<BR>http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/domains/?p=BESTDEAL<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Sca-bmdl mailing list<BR>Sca-bmdl@lists.andrew.cmu.edu<BR>https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/sca-bmdl<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR><BR>Karen Kasper<br><br>"I told myself that acts of
folly are the only things that one doesn't regret in life." - Jean-Paul Guyot <br><br>"I believe in the indomitable human spirit and the amazing capacity we have for understanding the world; for love, joy and happiness." - Michael Shermer<p> 
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