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For what it’s worth, this is the paper I’m presently recommending to my students.
Scribes write on parchment, but parchment is mad expensive, and it’s foolish to take your first tottery strokes with a quill on the most expensive medium available. Much better to get started on paper.
But what sort of paper? You don’t want paper that’s too rough, because a quill won’t do smooth lines. You don’t want paper that’s too absorbent, because a quill won’t do crisp lines. You want a nice smooth – but not too smooth – paper that doesn’t absorb too much ink. And ideally, you want to be able to run it through the printer to print guidelines, because drawing your own guidelines is horribly boring.
Well, this stuff works. It’s not the only stuff that works, but you can buy it in the art store that’s nearest to the Drisha Institute, by whose courtesy and in whose classrooms I am holding my scribe class this semester, so it’s the stuff I’m using at the moment. And if you’re wondering what to buy, you could certainly do worse than this.
The picture links to Cheapjoes.com, which I use periodically; they are quite satisfactory.
Mirrored from hasoferet.com.
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