1. Parchment is animal skin, stretched.
2. In the middle ages, you got white paint from letting a bar of lead soak in dregs of wine and then sit in a dung-filled hut. The chemicals caused a reaction, which gave you white paint.
3. If you go to www.processing.org, you can learn how to create self-generating art with a computer.
4. There is a Center for the History of the Book in Edinburgh, Scotland.
5. In the 1400's, someone made a book on parchment for ladies to read. It consisted of a bunch of pictures and prayers. A few hundred years later, someone erased the genitals from the drawing of the naked Noah.
6. Asians are supposedly better at math because their language for numbers makes more sense. Instead of our "twenty" and "thirty," they have the logical equivalent of "two-ty" and "three-ty." I decided this is why the French are so much better at art, since they say "four-twenty" instead of 80.
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! I am commenting on our own blog. Forgive me. Illuminated manuscripts are my FAVORITE. I like the Book of Days best. I saw it in London on display and lost my mind. It is brilliant. I would like to do a modern day book of days- it would have very very detailed pictures of people temping and filling their cars with gas and what not. It would take me years to do and I would have to do it all by candle light.
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