Gilding the Lily

with Dan Mooney TCG 2-day Workshop Weekend November 16 and 17, 2019 “PLAYING WITH GOLD” or “GILDING the LILY”

[After four years of long anticipation, TCG members once again get a chance to play with gold, to continue from the last workshop we had with Dan Mooney, on Sept 26/27, 2015: see our previous blog […]

2018 Spring Calligraphy Exhibit

Calligraphy Exhibit by TCG member Ann Erickson: “The Wing’ed Pen – in whose flight the soul’s expression soars”

Dates: Apr 27 – Jun 23, 2018 Artist’s Reception: April 27, 2018 6-8 pm.

Exhibit is presented by the Town of Cary, at the Cary Arts Center

A versatile collection of calligraphic quotes in many alphabet […]

Dan Mooney: Gilding Workshop

The gilded letter ‘C’ from Dan Mooney’s workshop

TCG 2-day Workshop Weekend: September 26 and 27, 2015, 8am – 5pm

Dan Mooney of Boston will be coming to teach us a workshop on the illuminated and decorated letter. Dan is well known for his gold work and tooling of gold. Visit his website […]

Reggie Ezell: 26 Seeds — a year-long workshop in 2014

Reggie Ezell’s “26 Seeds” workshop, hosted by TCG in 2014 — Students’ Area (password access)

The Triangle Calligraphers’ Guild is excited to announce that we will be hosting Reggie Ezell’s workshop: “26 Seeds: A Year to Grow”.

We would like to invite all of our Calligrafriends to join us for this fabulous year-long workshop. Please […]

Book of Kells free to view online

The Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, made a wonderful St. Patrick’s Day gift to the world. The Book of Kells can now be viewed online for free.

Click on the image! Enjoy!

Book of Kells

 

White Vine Illumination

Look at this nice White Vine Illumination and how vivid the colors still are after 900 years. You can also see the holes that were punched in with a stylus to mark where the baselines should be drawn. Tuscany, 1150, New Testament, Parchment. Perkins Library at Duke University, NC.

Sheila Waters commented on this: “Interesting […]

Video: Making Manuscripts

A wondeful video about making manuscripts by the Getty Museum. Don’t miss this!

(Note: Both videos are from the Getty Museum’s YouTube channel, see if you can find the slight differences between the two videos!)

Video from Nov 17, 2010

The HD version, from Jun 17, 2014:

From the YouTube video description provided:

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