November Meeting

There is a change of venue for the November meeting and it will be in the Business School at Sunderland University. Anyone who is unsure where this is or how to get there please contact the group Secretary, Mary Swales, for help. The workshop tutor is Celia Kilner and we will be looking at embossing and raised letters. Celia has asked us to bring along the usual calligraphy gear plus anything you may have from the following list: white cartridge paper, tracing paper, layout paper, black card, scalpel with new blades, cutting mat, a light box, gouache paints, a 'dead' biro, sticky fixers, masking tape and carbon paper (hand copy) if possible. Don't worry if you do not have these because we will all be sharing. See you in Sunderland on Saturday at 10.30 and if you are new to calligraphy and would like to see what we do please come along and have a look.

Make early for Christmas

Northumbrian Scribes love to make Christmas cards and this year, thanks to tutor Manny Ling, we had an early start with ideas from his workshop on card-making. He came armed with about half-a-dozen good methods for using scraps, old bits of calligraphy, collage and paper-cutting in the design of cards.

Manny demonstrated how something as simple as a triangle cut out of a scrap of calligraphy with another brightly coloured scrap at the base could be an effective Christmas tree and with a short greeting added a quick way of making a personalised card.

Another idea was to fold a piece of coloured card in half, make a few cuts through at the fold and then slot some bright card or paper between the cuts to make a stunning design to which lettering could be added.

Scribes really took to his ideas and the above display is of cards that were all made during the workshop.