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9 Gift-Ideas for SCA Scribes: A Medieval-Inspired Guide
‘Tis the season to celebrate, and if you have a scribe in the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) on your holiday shopping list, you may be wondering what they’d like for a gift. SCA scribes are passionate about calligraphy, illumination, and all things medieval. To make their holiday season extra special, I’ve compiled a list…
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The Insiders Guide To Scribal Gifts
Whether you’re shopping for an SCA scribe or you are the creative person here are 18 gift ideas to consider. Some are so economical so you might combine them together. Or use them as small tokens of appreciation at an event.
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May Day Then And Now
What’s so important about May Day? In history, today or in the SCA?
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Christmas Wishes From The 16th Century
With tomorrow being Christmas I thought you would enjoy this 16th-century poem describing what it meant at least to Thomas Musser – the poet of early Elizabethan farm life. Musser wrote about it in his book Fiue Hundreth Pints O Good Husbandry chapter 23. Feast from the British Library’s 16th-c digitized Golf Book Add MS 24098 f. 19 Of Christ cōmeth Christmas,…
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Holiday Shopping For SCA Scribes, Book Artists And Friends
Gifts featured at Kris Kinder. With Thanksgiving over it’s time you turn to preparing for the coming winter holidays’ gift-giving. Here’s a few shopping tips and budget friendly ideas. You could put together a scribal gift-pack like the one I described in my post Holiday Scribal Gift Ideas. It’s easy to make yourself and a great gift for…
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8 Scribal Books For Cyber-Monday Ordering
Cyber-Monday is tomorrow, so I hope you see this in time. There’s also little for scribal illuminators at local bookstores. And nothing on history, gouache application, or medieval manuscript terminology. So shopping for these items Monday online is perfect timing. These are not new publications. There aren’t many current books in this category. But they are…
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Holiday Scribal Gift Ideas
Are you a scribe wondering what to get that want-to-be scribe in your life for Christmas or 12th Night? How about putting together a scribal gift-pack collection? When looking at John Neal Bookseller‘s web page, like a kid dreaming for a Christmas present, I came across this unique item offered by a professional watercolorist. It is a paint…