HERB - My next project
Sheron Buchele/Curtis Rowland
foxryde at cactus.verinet.com
Sat May 22 13:14:45 PDT 1999
Greetings!
At the Northshield event last weekend, I did a "Useful Herbs Gathered from
Site" exhibit and it was well received. But the winner of the event (and
very justly) was a wonderful Arabic book of poetry. As I was drooling over
that book - carefully so as to not dampen the pages - I got to thinking
about doing an herbal. Then I did more thinking about it.
What I want to do is to write the herbal that my persona would have used
(except I will write it in English not Provencal or Arabic). My persona
history is a Provencal woman hears Abbe Benard and signs up for the Second
Crusade. She rides with Eleanor but is left in this little Arabic town
with a lot of other Crusaders. There is where she learns her herbalism.
So I am thinking of maybe making the paper (maybe). But making the book,
doing the C&I with period Arabic inks and things, and having a dried
pressed example of the herb or a painting (I am not sure what is more
period for Arabic herbals).
So my question is: is there an available Arabic herbal that would have been
in use in the later part of the 12th Century?
I am thinking that I will have some Arabic information - such that I would
have needed to go into an Apothacary to order the herb - but have the use
and cultivation info in English. Right now I am thinking of doing from 15
to 25 herbs total with a page or two of information and a page of
illustration.
Any suggestions or thoughts?
Baroness Leonora
Fox Ryde Gardens - Herbal Innovations for Health and Cuisine
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