Goldbeating

January 14, 2019

Nice little video about the craft of beating gold leaf by hand in France in the late 1960s. In French …

How Lapis Lazuli is Ground and Purified

August 18, 2014

For those of you who would like to see how lapis lazuli is ground and purified according to the recipe …

March 21, 2013

Iron gall ink is one of the most frequently found inks in manuscripts from the Middle Ages to the 19th …

January 17, 2013

Verdigris is a blue-green pigment used in manuscript illumination, hand-coloring of maps, and prints, from at least the medieval period …

March 20, 2012

An online version of the pigment sampler set available in the Traveling Scriptorium kit. Please note that colors in this …

February 29, 2012

A small number of Medieval to Early Modern ink & pigment recipes compiled from various historical and contemporary sources, mostly from European …