Most historical grants of arms were writing-heavy, art-light, in contrast with most of our scrolls. I do not begrudge anyone a beautiful piece of art for their wall, but I don't think spending untold hours making an already attractive piece of black-and-white art colorful is a good use of the time of the scant few active scribes.
Perhaps doing illuminated scrolls for basic AoAs, GoAs and all Patents, then doing basic written scrolls for all the orders. Illuminate the first letter of each paragraph, and maybe have a nice but simple header with the symbol of the order on it. That should cut down scroll production time considerably without making it completely plain.
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Re: I'm wanting to run with this...
Date: 2006-06-12 02:50 pm (UTC)Perhaps doing illuminated scrolls for basic AoAs, GoAs and all Patents, then doing basic written scrolls for all the orders. Illuminate the first letter of each paragraph, and maybe have a nice but simple header with the symbol of the order on it. That should cut down scroll production time considerably without making it completely plain.