More photos of the manuscripts as they are being worked on. They are beautiful!!

As part of the manuscript course, Jeff (the bookbinding instructor) and I swapped classes for a few days. He's shown in an earlier post giving us a demo of one of the bookbinding styles. Here are some photos of his students having a few lessons in calligraphy and gilding.

A partially completed page of Teddy's manuscript. Look at the beautiful calligraphy!

A lesson in bookbinding from Jeff

Jillian's portraits - fanciful and fun

and here's the finished product

then he decided to stitch a border around the monogram