Scroll Layout for SCA
Awards
By: Adrienne d'Evreus
Adrienne.dEvreus@gmail.com
1.207.651.5837
In the East Kingdom, awards
are often accompanied by scrolls. Scrolls are made by volunteers
given assignments by the East Kingdom Signet. I am one of those
volunteers and I hope someday soon you will be too!
When planning a scroll, the
first place I start is with the assignment itself, the recipient's
name and title, the award being given and any information about the
reason for the award if it's available. I reach out to the contact I
have been given and research the information I have received about
the recipient including the nationality and time period of their
persona.
Cennino Cennini, a 14th
century artist says, "Strive and delight always to copy the best
things you can find, made by the hand of great masters."
(Broecke 47) This medieval craftsman teaches us to make tracing
paper (Broecke 46). I delight in the fact that copying was
traditional and tracing paper was used by some medieval scribes.
Remember, you are a volunteer, this should be fun! We're here to
learn about history and re-create it. These scrolls should enrich
your life as well as the life and home of the recipient.
So, in books and online,
find sources that fit your recipient's persona and modify them with
information from the Scribe's Handbook and information from Ygraine'shandout to lay out your design.
Based on frame sizes at
Michaels, Alexandre Saint Pierre put together this table, which I
find very helpful.
Mat Opening Size Maximum Artwork Size 3.5x5" 3x4.5" 4x6" 3.5x5.5" 5x7" 4.5x6.5" 6x8" 5.5x7.5" 8x10" 7.5x9.5" 8.5x11" 8x10.5" 10x13" 9.5x12.5" 11x14" 10.5x13.5"
From the Scribe's Handbook
we can see some common frame sizes:
4x6", 5x7",
8x10", 8.5x11", 10x20", 11x14", 12x16",
16x20"
Thank you for your time and
interest in re-creating medieval and renaissance pieces of art. Have
fun and feel free to contact me with questions or for help.
References:
Broecke, Lara. Cennino
Cennini's Il Libro Dell'Arte, A new English traslation and commentary
with Italian trascription. 2015.
Brown, Jamin. Personal
communication with Alexandre Saint Pierre
Kell, Susan. Scroll
Layout for SCA Awards by Mistress Ygraine of Kellswood. 2002,
2007.
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