[Scriptoris] Gulf War wrap up

[Hillary Greenslade]

Greetings Scribes, 
Wanted to give a bit of a wrap up on the Gulf Wars activities at Scribes Point this year.   

A number of Ansteorran's made it to the point, but I've run off and left the list of those that
painted scrolls with the proctor, so I'll post names later.   I did see Natalia Auvert, Thomas
atte Wood, Stella Silvana and others.   Sadly, tho, there weren't as many painters as in years
past, we had about 12 scrolls completed and turn in, yet were hoping for more.  

Some wordfame from war: 
Lillias MacGuffin from the northern region sent a beautiful prize scroll for the Ansteorran Heavy
tourney on Saturday. The scroll was beautiful and wow'ed over by everyone at the point.  It had
blue flowers in either morning glorie's or columbine's or both.   

Thomas atte Woode accepted a commission from the Triskel Herald of Trimaris to put a text into a
Court Barony scroll, in a lovely gothic hand, for which Trimaris was ever grateful. 
Vivat to you both for your service! 

Natalia's 2 year old daughter was quietly playing by the sofa corner, when into a very quiet hall
of painting scribes, young Lilly proclaimed 'Mommie!...get..me..out..of..here!!', as her quiet
meter ran out so Mommie decided to take Lilly for a walk.  

Merchants were cool at War this year, Ellen of the Scholars was at war in her usual spot with
pigments, feathers and toys, Bro. Karl was a merchant I'd not visited before, he had 7x10
parchment pages as well as pigments and inks; Karl also said he had full parchment/vellum sheets,
but had sold out, so next year, I'm going to try to get him to bring more and post a sign.  A
Moorish Caravan merchant has some lovely pigments from Morroco that are not usually found in
European sets, such as poppy and indigo. I discussed getting vellums from Morrocco, but he said
the leathers are oft too thick, but he'd check in Ethopia when next he visited.  Last, I visited a
gentleman who had handmade papers bound in scrolls, and I tried to encourage him to sell the pages
separately, he also had some nice lampblack inks from England.  

Next year, Scribe's Point will be growing a bit; with the promise of 12x24 tent to put up outside
the point on the lawn beside the building in which to hold classes and I'll be bringing a large
whiteboard for the teachers; so the scriptorium can continue with painters. With the space for
classes outside, this is also a good area for some messy classes, such as paper, ink or pigment
making.  For multimedia classes, the point will be available for evening lecture scribal surveys
(you may have to bring projector), perhaps on specific researched manuscripts or museum tours.  
Also, there maybe plans for a Scribe's Social on Wednesday night.  

Hope you all had fun at Scribe's Point, feel free to share stories.   
Looking forward to next year already. 
Hillary, Signet