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                        | scroll: 2007-01 Hand-bound booklet with 15th
century
English text and inital pages, with a frontispiece of a Flemish border
and Spanish miniature, and with fingerloop braiding samples
 
 
 Recipient: Rhiannon y bwaEvent:
                        January 13, 2007 -
Kingdom
Twelfth Night, Shire of Hartsone
 
 Inspiration:
 BL Harley MS 2320, folio 52r (text pages and initial), mid-15th century
 Isabella Breviary, BL Add. MS 18851, folio 81v? (frontispiece border),
late 15th century
 The Borja Virgin and Child altar piece (frontispiece miniature), 1465
 Taken
from:
 Harley MS: photograph of folio 52r purchased directly from the British
Library
 Isabella Breviary: scan provided by Mistress Rhiannon, probably from
Janet Backhouse, The Isabella
Breviary (London: British Library, 199)
 Borja Virgen: photograph purchased directly from Institut
Amatller d´Art Hispànic, Barcelona, Spain
 
 Materials:
 Pages: Pergamenata paper,
Oak Gall Ink penned with hand cut quills, Winsor-Newton Gouche, 23.75 karat shell gold
 Fingerloop braids: DMC rayon floss
 Binding: Davey board, Lineco Superior book cloth, Neutral Ph PVA
(Lineco), grosgrain ribbon
 
 Alheydis's Boke of Secrets: Fingerloop
Braiding
 Detailed instructions on how to produce the braids from this booklet
 
 From Atelier to Adobe
 Ice Dragon research paper detailing the research and production process
of making this booklet. (PDF file)
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 The frontispiece, with the over-sized folio 8
extending to the right holding the fingerloop braid samples.
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