Lord Valdimárr Broddson

Hlaford Bran Mydwynter's writeup about these scrolls

This project tested me. There were many materials that I tried that failed in concept, fidelity to idea, or that couldn't handle the small areas in the design. Bran did an INCREDIBLE job designing this, and came up with the idea to tool leather, which would maintains the texture seen under the garnets in the exemplar. Leather is a new-to-me medium, so I did a few practice runs with a pie-slice of the final design. They went well enough that I was confident the project would work, which was a HUGE relief at the time. The garnets and glass areas are filled with a mixture of paint and gloss medium in order to maintain the translucency of the original garnets, and the milky-opaqueness of the glass. 

I had a lot of guidance on this one for the leather tooling. Sir Alherin and Ollam Lanea not only purchased more leather than I needed, frames, and backing boards, they also purchased additional tools I might need in addition to the ones they already loaned me. I also had leather material and technique guidance from Hláford Bran Mydwynter, Baroness Nezhka Orshinaia and my good friend Erik Z(w)immerman. Baroness Nezhka also sent me a metal block to tool on!

At the last minute we decided to make an additional scroll, also designed by Hlāford Bran, so Lord Valdemárr could read Ollam Lanea's amazing words. We are all enablers here.

Finished Main Scroll

Finished Sidecar Scroll

Progress

Ductus from Barbarini Gospels