The past couple days have seen an uptick in visitors of the quiet variety. I have gotten a few likes or comments over on the facebook links to these posts but it’s quiet here. These things just intrigue me at a geeky level.
Had really good intentions to do a bunch of quilting yesterday. Instead I made a very small dent of throwing out some paper stuff from a room and ventured up into the attic and found a box of calligraphy books. Fascinating stuff. Even more fascinating, the Society of Scribes, of which I was once a card-carrying member, is still around and active.
The book, or more accurately folio, that I had been looking for was pretty much as I remembered it, although I’d forgotten the cards of historical hands for study and copying. The link I found to them online indicate that the designer and calligrapher, Ismar David, died in 1997.
This and a few of the other books made my heart glad in strange and amazing ways.
When I finally gave up trying to quilt last night I opened up my book to page 47 and started in on the writings of Robert Kirk re the presence and activities of fairies, fauns and elves in the low country of Scotland. I still had my dictionaries at the ready but Andrew Lang, editor, had thoughtfully inserted some of the definitions for me via square brackets.
Well it’s a bright and warm morning so I’m taking the rest of my coffee outside for a few minutes and encourage you to do the same. Then perhaps I will get that stint of quilting done (couldn’t decide about how to do the top area – two colors? start in the middle and work out?)
