02 Tuesday Jul 2019
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Throughout history, animal pelts have been used in the production of books and manuscripts. To learn more about how conservators identify the species of animal skins used in the making of manuscripts and bindings, Blog post on parchment and leather identification.edited – prepared by Laura O’Brien-Miller, Conservator
Nice little video about the craft of beating gold leaf by hand in France in the late 1960s. In French …
For those of you who would like to see how lapis lazuli is ground and purified according to the recipe …
A PDF version of the booklet on bookbinding included in the Traveling Scriptorium kit is now online. It contains sections …
Iron gall ink is one of the most frequently found inks in manuscripts from the Middle Ages to the 19th …
Verdigris is a blue-green pigment used in manuscript illumination, hand-coloring of maps, and prints, from at least the medieval period …
A high-quality version of the leather and parchment sample set available in the Traveling Scriptorium kit has been added to …
Online versions of the sample sets of binding models, binding styles, leather and parchment, and historical images of book and manuscript production are now …
An online version of the pigment sampler set available in the Traveling Scriptorium kit. Please note that colors in this …
A small number of Medieval to Early Modern ink & pigment recipes compiled from various historical and contemporary sources, mostly from European …
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