The border pattern was inspired by a 3rd Phase Chief's Blanket, a rare weaving dating back to the 1890s. An authentic vintage Navajo weaving, it measures 69"x55". There are no extant items from earlier time periods due to the suppression and persecution of native peoples. The general lay out was inspired by a French psalter in Latin from the end of the 14th C (Bibliotheque Nationale de France, 13091 - Ernest Guillot "Omementation des Manuscrits au Moyen-Age."

Inspired by: The desire of the RUM Chancellor, Oswin, to copy the scroll for distribution to the staff. I wanted to minimize illustration and create something that would copy well.

Example pages of the "Italique Hande" from a copy of A booke containing diuers sortes of hands... first published in 1570. https://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/detail/FOLGERCM1~6~6~21790~101872:A-booke-containing-diuers-sortes-of

Kidney Bean and English Daisy, Flemish and Hungarian, 1561–1562; illumination added 1591–1596

Ms. 20 (86.MV.527), fol. 88 - The Model Book of Calligraphy, designed by Georg Bocskay (1510–1575).

https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/1487/joris-hoefnagel-and-georg-bocskay-mira-calligraphiae-monumenta-flemish-and-hungarian-fols-1-129-written-1561-1562-illumination-added-about-1591-1596/

Inspired by: Meisterlin, Sigismundus: Ausburger Chronik - BBB Cgm 213, Ausburg, 1479-1481

http://datan.digitalesammlungen.de/bsb00074543/image_31

Scroll: A Linen Apron with a Wooden Cooking Spoon.

Apron hand-sewn linen embroidered in silk with a decorated Box Elder spoon (spoon hand-carved and donated by Lord Thomas Throckmorton)

Inspired by: Norse mythology - The cook of the gods, Andhrímnir, who is responsible for the slaughter of Sæhrímnir (yes, I know there is controversy, but generally it is depicted as a boar-like creature), the creature killed and eaten every night by the Æsir and einherjar and its preparation in the cauldron Eldhrímnir. After Sæhrímnir is eaten, the beast is brought back to life again to provide sustenance for the following day.

Recipient's heraldry . . . and  cooks’ aprons.

Scanned from The Medieval Cookbook by Maggie Black (because pig & apron!)

Inspired by: A single leaf from an antiphony, France c. 1400. The Morgan Library, MS G.3

Inspired by: Roman de la Rose, France, Rouen, c. 1525. MS M.948, Fol.122r. 

This manuscript page that so beautifully depicts people congregating at a gate and obviously engaging with the gatekeeper.

The Morgan Library & Museum. http://ica.themorgan.org/manuscript/page/69/145641

Qur’an Manuscript, circa 1307-8. 

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/451203 (Viewed 11/2/21)

The recipient has pride in her Mongolian hheritage so I wanted to honor that. During her ppersona’s period there was a large Islamic iinfluence. I thought this layout and knot work tto be inspiring and that it would lend itself well to Willow.

Inspired by: Wenceslas Bible, commissioned by King Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia (that place that doesn’t exist). Prague, c. 1390s. Chronik II, Esra I und Esra II (Vol 7). https://www.facsimilefinder.com/facsimiles/wenceslas-bible-facsimile#&gid=1&pid=26

Inspired by: The Stockholm Codex Aureus (Stockholm, National Library of Sweden, MS A. 135), an eighth-century Gospel book probably made in Canterbury. The opening page of the Gospel of Matthew offers more than just gold. A ninth-century note added to the margins of the page tells its exciting history. The Codex Aureus had once been stolen by Vikings and later ransomed back from the “heathen army” by an Anglo-Saxon ealdorman and his wife. Also striking is the first line which includes no fewer than twenty animals. Some are easy to find; others are well hidden.

Can you find the 20 animals on your scroll?

Detail of animals hidden in scroll on left.

 A wooden target painted with gouache and shell gold:

Bullseye [Gold Ring] - Pelican in Her Piety

Inner Ring [White/Red]- Midrealm Pale with crossed knife and axe

Outer Ring [Blue] - Representations of Orn’s heraldry and 6 Pearls to denote Court Baron.

Inspired by: Book of Hours of Giovanni Il Bentivoglio - Barcelona, c. 1497-1500

Inspired by: Landauer Twelve Brothers' House manuscript, c. 15th century, Nuremberg

Donnershafen Golden Seamstress Team - Group Award of the Grove duplicated for each team member.

Original Manuscript of Alice’s Advendures Underground by Lewis Carroll held by the British Library.

https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/alices-adventures-under-ground-the-original-manuscript-version-of-alices-adventures-in-wonderland

Inspiration: The actual Pennsic gate to House Ironwolf's camp.

Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland (f. 1) with two prose Scottish chronicles. Scotland, late 4th qtr 15th C. https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=7494&CollID=16&NStart=170420

Illuminated Manuscript Koran

Walters Art Museum Ms. W.553, fol.5a

This horizontal-format manuscript on parchment probably dates to the 9th century CE. The text is framed by red, blue, and gold framing lines and a polychrome and gold floral border.

The colors on this scroll were chosen to represent the Barony of Roaring Wastes and the Midrealm.

Box Built by:  Baron Aindle O’Diarmada

Art Design by: Sir Osric von Eisenwulf

Scroll & Box Decor by: Aliyah

To the Right: Outside top and inside bottom of box.

Inspiration: Image 052 in Celtic and Norse Designs - Dover Books. (Dover usually provides at least basic origin information; not thi s time. I had a used copy of the book w/o the CD and even ordered another copy with the CD hoping the documentation would be on the CD - Nope! Oh well. Love the look of it anyway. 

Size: 8"x10" art matted to 11"x14"

Materials: Gouache and 23K shell gold on pergamenata. Oak gall ink.

Calligraphy hand: Unical