Saffron Scribes at Lay Members' Day 2013

This is written a little after the event as Lay Members' Day this year was held at the end of April but is it ever too late to share some good calligraphy stuff?  I don't think so.

Saffron Scribes regional group is named after the town of Saffron Walden in Essex where it was originally established.  It's a friendly and enthusiastic group interested in learning about calligraphy, lettering and other related skills, such as bookmaking and gilding.  I very much enjoy being a member and attending the workshops.

The group was very pleased to be asked to put together a display for this year's Lay Members' Day, held by the Society of Scribes & Illuminators at King's College in Waterloo, and immediately set about making plans for the stand.

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We all decided to prepare a group project specifically for display on the day and once we'd agreed the theme of "Essex", set to work with our individual contributions.  The theme was purposely broad with no limitations on subject or style as long as it related to the county.  However, there were some restrictions :  to write two panels of A4 size with black lettering on a white background only.  All the panels were then overlaid with a pastel effect to echo the colours of  the Essex landscape, which brought the whole display together as a single piece.

In the end we had 22 panels and here is the marvellous result of everyone's efforts!

And a closer look at all of the individual panels...

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The Stand

And here is the group's stand on the day, which shows the wonderfully varied gallery of individuals' calligraphy artwork displayed next to the Essex theme and on the table.

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Bags and books too!

Every member also contributed one or more letters or words for printing onto bags - a purple shopper and a drawstring in black - and many also pitched in to create  an attractive range of quality hand-made notebooks, all to raise funds to keep the group going.

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