Small steps

Some practice writing capitals and a little web shopping led to two useful insights of the day:

-I'm doing virtually all my calligraphy from secondary sources. If I want my writing to look more like medieval examples, I should probably look at those examples more, because they are quite different from the modern "this is how to write this script" pages. Duh. And I actually realized this before at the scriptorium in Walden years ago, but forgot about it...

-the pen I'm using for The Book now is a brause bandschriftpen 180, 0,75 mm wide. I'm pretty sure that the pen I used originally is a little narrower. I ordered a few spares of the Brause pen here: http://www.kalligrafie.com/webshop/index.html?lang=nl&target=d12.html&lmd=39835.958831

I also ordered a Mitchell square pen nr 5 (the narrowest I have now is nr 4), to see if that is the size I used originally (and will beat myself up if it is, because I continued where I left off 10 years ago (or however long ago it is) with the slightly wider pen, which looks a little different.

New stuff

Bertrik went shopping and found gold leaf stuff here: http://www.dullerenco.nl/ It's been years since we went around looking for these things, and back then we never found this store, but they have all sorts of stuff we'd only been able to find online, so that's cool!

So, tonight we try out the new burnisher and gold leaf (seperate leaves in stead of transfer stuff).