Pens, Paint-making, and Illumination - NYPL's Three Faiths Scriptorium
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Watch how bird feathers are carved into quills, how paint is made, and how gold is added to illuminate manuscripts in this video from the Scriptorium at The New York Public Library's "Three Faiths" exhibition, open Friday, October 22, 2010 through Sunday, February 27, 2011.
Ive been doing historical calligraphy for 30 years and I learned more tricks in this video than in all that time. BRAVO!
So much painstaking work goes into these projects...cherish them!
I'm so very jealous of your skills but very glad the art form of Illumination and the quill is not dead.
Wow! I love the detailed description!!!😊
Beautiful. Very informative. She is living my dream.
I make bamboo pens from the bamboo growing out back, have made pens from chips of wood, and recently made a vey nice pen from a stem of rattan that was blocking my path.
Bravo. Buen trabajo 👍
this is an awesome video, thanks so much for posting this
Realmente extraordinario.
Magnifiscent ! ✨
Brillant!
Nice video. Thanks for upload. Could you tell me what 'alum' is and where it can be bought? Thanks for answer in advance.
how long does the gesso take to dry and how long do you have to breathe on the gesso to dampen the gesso? also where did you get the gesso from.. did you make it? please help!
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I thought it was to prevent the gold leaf from adhering to the vellum.
This is awesome.
I'm surprised Americans even appreciate such grand stuff! 😳
How did the medieval/ancient scribes get the attention span to do this every day? Seems like a person would get bored or have a mistakes because of mind wanderings. I have asked around many UA-cam videos on this subject but not gotten much answers.
I can't speak for all cultures that practiced this art, but in Christendom A lot of manuscripts were done by monastic scribes, for whom it a form of meditation and worship. A huge part of why people chose the monastic lifestyle(and for many it was not a choice) was to life a simpler and more peaceful life. So in part it's because they did not look at the task as something to be distracted from, but an escape and a part of their duties. That said they did make mistakes, fortunately the material they were using, vellum, was very forgiving. It was scraped down animal hide, as such if a scrape made a mistake they could simply scrap it off with the same sharp blade they used to cut their quills. In fact it was not uncommon for scribes to scrape clean entire pages in order to reuse the vellum for new books.
@@BastiatC Thank you for your informative response.
@@knoxvillehermitfreemoviesm3625 of course 😄. I'm just sorry it took 8 months for you to get an answer
what does the egg shell do???
It stops the gold leaf sticking absolutely everywhere.