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Fun with ketubot – 1830s Modena, part 4/5
Faced with the task of copying an image from the internet and scaling it up to ketubah size, how does one go about it?
Technique from primary school. Impose a grid onto your original, and copy each square into a scaled-up grid on your target medium.
Printing the original picture gave me something on standard printer paper – a good start, but not big enough. So I marked a grid with three-quarter-inch squares onto my printout, and made a grid of one-inch squares on my paper.
The three-quarter-inch squares on the printout helped me figure out how big the target letters needed to be, and roughly how they should be spaced relative to the borders and to each other.
To do the actual letters, I spent some time learning the script, first, so that it would be a process of natural writing, rather than copying shapes square-by-square. This meant that the reproduction wasn’t quite exact, but the proportions were right, and the general look worked out nicely.
Afterwards, of course, when you’re sure the ink’s dry, you rub off all the pencil marks, and then it looks pretty scrumptious. Allowing for the skewing caused by my imperfect photography, they’re pretty much just the same – nice, eh? I like this border very much.
Mirrored from hasoferet.com.