Friday, October 28, 2016

Cover art Friday

FOR4 The Code of the Harpers (2e) | Book cover and interior art for Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2.0 - Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, D&D, DND, AD&D, ADND, 2nd Edition, 2nd Ed., 2.0, 2E, OSRIC, OSR, d20, fantasy, Roleplaying Game, Role Playing Game, RPG, Wizards of the Coast, WotC, TSR Inc. | Create your own roleplaying game books w/ RPG Bard: www.rpgbard.com | Not Trusty Sword art: click artwork for source: Volo's Guide to the Sword Coast (2e) - Forgotten Realms | Book cover and interior art for Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2.0 - Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, D&D, DND, AD&D, ADND, 2nd Edition, 2nd Ed., 2.0, 2E, OSRIC, OSR, d20, fantasy, Roleplaying Game, Role Playing Game, RPG, Wizards of the Coast, WotC, TSR Inc. | Create your own roleplaying game books w/ RPG Bard: www.rpgbard.com | Not Trusty Sword art: click artwork for source:

Adam Savage's Zorg ZF-1 Prop Replica!

The Shambles: One of Britain's best preserved Medieval streets

The ancient street of the Butchers of York. Photo Credit1 Photo Credit2The Shambles gives a sense of the medieval town where buildings leaned toward each other across narrow streets. Photo CreditThe street was once known to be a row of butchers shops complete with slaughter houses. Photo CreditThe Shambles: One of Britain's best preserved Medieval streets

The making of medieval embroidery

Medieval embroidery was a painstaking and precise art form, performed by skilled embroiderers – both men and women – mostly based in the city of London. This film shows contemporary embroiderer Rosie Taylor-Davies recreating a detail from a 700-year-old fragment of English embroidery. Working entirely by hand, she demonstrates the intricate process and skill of 14th-century embroiderers, who created some of England’s most beautiful and elaborate textile art.

First the design is drawn out on paper and transferred to the fabric with charcoal in a technique known as 'pouncing'. The design is then embroidered using two techniques which were characteristic of English medieval embroidery: split stitch (shown here with white and colored silk thread), and underside couching (usually silver or gold, as here). 

Opus Anglicanum: Masterpieces of English Medieval Embroidery
1 October 2016 – 5 February 2017
vam.ac.uk/opus