Manuscripts and early printed books inspire my products.
Each manuscript is a unique rendering, but its imagery often represents familiar tropes. Many manuscripts were copied from other manuscripts, by a wide range of scribes and artist illuminators, so hybrid and interesting anomalies often occur.
I, too, am a copyist, using manuscripts’ digital surrogates. I take them from their virtual pages and print them onto cloth and paper. Images used on my products range mostly from 1200 —1650 CE.
My current image repertoire includes mostly Western images from British and Europe. I initially produced products also using images from Hebrew, Armenian, Persian, and Indian book art. But only a very few people bought those, so I have donated those products.
Everything that I produce is printed in small runs, or as custom orders. If you have an image that you’d like to use, I’m happy to design you something with it, as long as it’s copyright compliant and 600+ dpi.
Your questions and suggestions are always welcome.
Some of my best products are from my customers’ ideas!
Most of my images are from institutions who freely share their collections through Creative Commons. I rely heavily on the Walters Art Museum and the J. Paul Getty Museum, and the University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Manuscripts and Rare Books. I also purchase images from the British Library and other collections.
Here are a few of my most popular products:
Use Your Voice T-shirt Christine de Pizan, Feminist scholar
Available as onesies, children & teens, women’s & unisex S – XL+
All images are legally acquired. Bibliographic information is included with all products.
Notepad set, 2 of each $12.50
Set of two notepads $5.00
Eyeglass cleaner Christine de Pizan $5.00
Feminist scholar, philosopher, poet, and critic
Scribal Correction Tea Towel $18
The red-hooded man on the rope points to where the missing line of text should go.