[EKStationers] Fwd: Parchment Making Workshop & book notice

[Wendy Gale]

Bonjour mes amis!

Two items I thought might be of interest -- one workshop and one book.

         -Sabine

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>Date:         Mon, 12 Feb 2007 19:46:43 -0500
>From:         jesse meyer <mc.tanner at EARTHLINK.NET>
>Subject: [BKARTS] Parchment Making Workshop May 18th-19th 2007
>To:           BOOK_ARTS-L at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
>
>PARCHMENT MAKING WORKSHOP
>For those who are interested, Jesse Meyer will be offering another
>parchment making workshop the Spring of 2007. It will be a two day
>event held May 18th and 19th at The Meyer Family Tannery and Jesse's
>studio, in Montgomery New York. It will include:
>   - Demonstrations of initial wetwork. (dehairing, fleshing, etc.)
>   - Soaking and hands on stretching of a calfskin and a goatskin.
>   - Scraping, sanding and finishing of the skins of your choice.
>Each participant will go home with a fair colored calfskin,a
>goatskin, dyed a color of your choice, and probably some dirty
>clothes. The cost of the workshop will be $225 (which will include
>the cost of the raw skins). These workshops have always been a blast
>for all involved, as well as being an in-depth education and an
>opportunity to purchase parchment and vellum at the studio.
>Participation will be limited to 12 people.
>     For more information about the workshop, visit the website at
> www.pergamena.net or contact Jesse Meyer @ jesse at pergamena.net or
845.649.5806

Terry Belanger wrote:

> On a related front, we have just received a copy of "Pen in hand:
> medieval scribal portraits, colophons and tools," edited by Michael
> Gullick, published in 2006 by the Red Gull Press (2 Clay End,
> Walkern, Herts SG2 7JB), with contributions by Andrea Budgey, Ewan
> Clayton, Richard Gameson, Michael Michael, Randall A. Rosenfeld,
> Kathleen Scott, Elizabeth Sears, John C. Sharpe, and (notably) by
> Gullick himself.
>      This important book is a companion to the Anderson-Lovelace (L.
> L. Brownrigg) series that includes "Medieval Book Production:
> Assessing the Evidence" (1990), "Medieval Manuscripts of the Latin
> Classics" (1995), and "Interpreting and Collecting Fragments of
> Medieval Books" (2000).
>
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