#and i am drawn to the idea of a dominican monk that joined the order after the black death when the requirements for joining where relaxed

[oodlenoodleroodle]

So I may be sort of getting into SCA. I went to the meeting for the first time a few weeks back and they gave me a quick intro of what sort of things people do. And I am super interested in doing some sort of arty or scribe-y things, like illumination or such.

But parchment is made from animals. Vellum is made from animals. I will not be touching animal products.

They did mention that there is some sort of a fake-parchment that people often use, that could be an option, at least to try.

However. Another thing that is lurking in the back of my head, which I am trying to resist, is printing. There is a tiny devil constantly whispering in my ear:

Wood block printing. Printing press. You could make your own goddamn printing press to make wood block prints and print the entire Stände Buch and use copies of it to trade with everyone else for everything else you might want or need.

And I try to beat it down because maybe not everything needs start with a huge fucking project, maybe the first thing could be just trying new things for fun, for once?,