Imperfectly Period

 It has been a minute!  Been distracted with looking for work, eventing season, the world descending into madness... So have a fun scroll I did a for a friend awhile back.  She has an Italian persona so I went a little overboard with what's essentially a step above a thank you card.  Note the entire map of Italy in the capital complete with an orca!       In progress capital that was ~1.25 inches square   The border is based on a prayer book from Milan ca. 1430 ( MS M.944 fol. 19v ).  The capital is also based on a 15th C. example, but I can't remember the exact source.  

I've had my eye on some leather folders, but I'm currently between jobs and hate seeing plastic binders during court. So I did some quick and dirty limp binding with some scrap linen for my baronial ceremonial.  100% handsewn linen with matching green poly thread. If I'd had the confidence and time to do a test scrap, I would have tried to stiffen it with gum Arabic.  Knowing myself, I need to be able to wash it at least once in a blue moon so didn't want to glue to cardboard. It was a touch too small, so I had to trim the edges and laughed at the hack job, reminding myself this is why I'm not a bookbinder.

What do you do when you have event tokens and don't have a persona that would have a treasure chain or you dislike the medieval Mr. T look? You make them into ornaments!

I had about a dozen commercial handkerchiefs lying around and decided to embroider them for largesse. Top one is the  Clan Blue Feather  badge.

A Silver Hand, an award for long-term service to the Principality, for my Laurel. Discovered I hate designing Norse-style awards and that ink does NOT work on top of gouache.  Had to wreck a couple of microns.