ILLUMINATION

These are links on actually doing illumination. Online manuscript links will be found here.

This is a private website maintained by Phoebe Waller-Sharp, known in the SCA as Lady Ysabeau Tiercelin. Contact the webmistress. Copyright 2008. This site is not an official SCA website in any way whatsoever.

Design elements from:

General How-To

 

Gutenberg School of Scribes

Lots of lessons, from Atenveldt

Making an SCA Scroll

Good basic intro, step by step process

Florilegium Scribal Articles

Click on Scribal in the left-hand menu

The Painted Word

Step by step manuscript project

Pigments

 

Illumination Recipes

How to make glair, oak gall ink, shell gold, more

Period Pigments

Period Pigments and making paint

Pigments Through the Ages

Overview of pigments through the ages

Whitework

 

E. Boucher article

Tips to improve your whitework

Whitework 101

Great beginner article

White Vine Initial

Check out the rest of her site, too!

Gilding

 

Basic Gilding

Basic gilding info

Gilding

Maitresse Yvianne’s webpage on gilding

Making a Burnisher

Making a burnisher for gilding

Gum Amoniac

How to make and use gum amoniac