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B3102. Fraktur: Tips, Tools, and Techniques/ Hartung B3102. Fraktur: Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Learning the Craft by Ruthanne Hartung. 2008. 103pp. 9"x11.25". Hardcover, hidden spiral.
A Fraktur is a document created by the early Pennsylvania German settlers to record and celebrate weddings, baptisms, house blessings, and the like. This instructional book for beginners covers the basics of painting, calligraphy, and layout for Fraktur. You learn through two projects, a small Fraktur and a house blessing. To help as you make your own Fraktur, patterns for the traditional elements - birds, houses, flowers and borders - a birth certificate and three family trees - are provided. Includes examples of traditional Fraktur and the author's work.
B2953. Celtic & Anglo Saxon Art / Westwood Celtic & Anglo Saxon Art & Ornament in Color by J.O. Westwood. 2007. 64pp. 8.25 x11. 53 full-color plates. Paper $14.95. Sale
From the fifth through the eighth centuries, Irish and Anglo-Saxon artists originated, cultivated, and perfected a style of art unparalleled and completely distinct from that of any other part of the world. Selected from incredibly rare illuminated manuscripts, this volume spotlights a wondrous variety of that ancient ornamental artwork. Characteristically mingling decoration, script, and text, the images are alive with intertwined lacings, abstract animal figures, meticulously drawn letters, winding scrolls of foliate designs, and uniquely solemn religious imagery.
This reproduction of a 19th century book of miniatures and ornaments provides a wealth of examples of knotwork, initials, animals, and human figures. The examples are particularly easy to use as models. They have been redrawn rather than photographically reproduced, and the color palette, while still rich, has been distilled to fewer colors. Reprint of facsimiles of the Miniatures and Ornaments of Anglo-Saxon and Irish Manuscripts, Day and Son Limited, London, 1868.
B3073. Politics and Script / Morison B3073. Politics and Script: Aspects of Authority and Freedom in the Development of Graeco-Latin Script from the Sixth Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century by Stanley, Morison, Nicolas Barker. (1972). 2000 reprint. 396pp. 11" x 7.5". Hardcover. Limited stock.
This series of lectures on the development of hands provides a cultural context. Sheila Waters finds it fascinating and notes that, though it is a scholarly work, the book is written in a pleasant style. Unlike many newer books, this one is so full of information that you may find yourself re-reading page to take it all in. Out-of-print. These copies may have some shelf wear/bent corners.
