Sketchbook: Knotwork Carpet Design

Sketchbook: Cheese Border

Sketchbook: Roman textile border.

Sketchbook: Norse Knotwork Border

Sketchbook: Diamond and Loop Variations

Sketchbook: Variations on Roman Key

Sketchbook: Border and Scroll design.

The scroll design at the top of this page has elements from an Egyptian or Coptic culture. The two-column text block would mean that the calligraphy would have to be small but it could work for a basic award.

The border at the bottom of the page is an Anglo-Saxon, early-period geometric design.

Sketchbook: Norse elements border.

Sketchbook: Norse Shield Border

Sketchbook: Zig-Zag border.

Sketchbook: Geometric Borders

Zig-Zag Border Design

 This is a inch and a half wide scroll design composed of two, quarter-inch bars with the space between them filled with a simple, zig-zag pattern. This is a design that could easily be taught since it only uses a ruler. Once the primary zig-zag line is drawn in, smaller triangles are added on either side to fill in the spaces.

Color variations allows the scribe to go with either two or three colors plus a simple bit of whitework.

Single Bar Border

This is another one of my simple early period, geometric-style scroll designs. The single bar is an inch and a half wide with two, quarter-inch frames bordering the column of diamonds and dots. Seems simple enough, right? This is one of the designs that could easily be laid out with nothing more than a ruler and a tracing guide for the circles.

This would be a great design for scribes who were starting out with painting or layout. There's plenty of space for people to practice just filling in basic shapes with color. Also, this would be a great scroll to help people practice their finishing work because the bars and diamonds could easily be filled with some whitework.

Geometric X Border with Capital scroll

This is another one of my early period, geometric scrolls. The inch-wide border on both ends with a  quarter-inch frame on the top and bottom. Because it was so simply constructed, I wanted to play with how color could be used to make the design really pop off the page.