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[doerksen at island.net]

Those last few hours before the presentation... Oh, my...

Lady Elspeth brought over a hundred bookplates that she designed and  
printed on her hand-press, one for each and every book, so that all  
would know that these were given by the hands of Their Highnesses of  
Tir Righ to those Whom They would favor.

We cut and pasted like maddened creatures to get them completed before  
Court! It was wonderful madness!

Halima
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Mon 26 Sep 2011 10:20:29 PM PDT, quoting Morel Carr Zupanic  
<bear_necessities at telus.net>:

>> As a calligraphy/book person I would be interested in hearing more about
>> the
>> 100 hand-made books. Sounds like an awesome project.
>> Cathal Sean
>
> It was a wonderful and fun project, Master Cathal Sean, and right until the
> last book was finished and placed into the box, there was laughter and joy
> in the carrying out of it.  Master James gave us the idea, and happened to
> already have taught a number of us to make the coptic bound books.  He did
> not stop at that, however, but also made a good number of the books
> (including an Oriental style) and provided many kits for others to put
> together.
>
> Many people contributed to this project, in many ways.  The chest and books
> are just the surface.  People hosted book-making nights, cut out lots of
> binder-board and shared it around, shared supplies, taught each other, put
> together kits for others to sew, made and/or applied lovely bookplates,
> challenged & encouraged each other, and jumped in to learn a new skill or
> three.
>
> The enthusiasm and co-operation were amazing, and I am so proud to be a part
> of the Shire of Hartwood.
>
> I do believe that we will be having a coptic book binding class at our
> Spring TUTR session....
>
> Doireann Dechti