Saturday, September 27th, 2:30-4:30 PM, 421 Belk Library

Laura McCloskey will guide you through recreating patterns and themes from early Irish art. Mary Valante will teach you how to use quills and oak gall ink to write in medieval Insular scripts, including the one that became the basis for a font used in nineteenth-century translations of medieval sources in Ireland and the UK. Helen Davies and Brian Cook will demonstrate, and allow you to try your hand at, using a full spectrum camera to accessibly image documents from medieval manuscripts to modern but damaged printed items.