We need to keep #cursive a mandatory requirement in schools & make old fashioned #letters should be a new concept again. Interesting #letterlocking is concept Iβm not familiar with. But #noAI There has to be an analog push at some point to keep us realβ¦ www.messynessychic.com/2022/12/14/s...
Letterlocking: The Hidden History of the Letter
Jana Dambrogio and Daniel Starza Smith #letterlocking #materialculture #informationsecurity #booksky
newbooksnetwork.com/letterlocking
If you're studying #margins & #letterlocking, this makes the digitization partly useless.
Happily, they did let me see the original MSS. But I'd have been happy with digitized images, if they'd only considered that people might be interested in more than just 'the text'.
#PreserveTheFolds [3/3]
Letterlocking is a method used to fold and secure paper or parchment to function as it's own envelope. As a paper conservator I love it!
To find out more you can visit the Letterlocking website: www.letterlocking.org
and YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/c/Letterlock... #Letterlocking
Lecture "Introduction to the Early Modern Period". Students with folded letters.
Today I drank some 18th century coffee and folded some 18th century letters with my students (I'm not good at selfies) #teaching #goals #earlymodern #history #letterlocking
Daniel Starza Smith & me in the Marlborough Pub
It was so nice to see this guy again yesterday! Dan has helped us build our materiality approach as a close cooperation partner since the beginning of the project and itβs cool we are friends ever since. Cheers #letterlocking @prizepapers.bsky.social
You work hard for a week, hoping there's _something_ in the data that makes for interesting results. Finally crunching the numbers β and I couldn't ask for a clearer figure of change over time!
#EpistolaryMateriality #letterlocking
#AndSoToBed
The all-seeing eye! ..er, of heart-break?
#EarlyModern #seal π¦ #signet #letterlocking #CumbriaArchives #Kendal
Southampton Archives today! Looking at the papers of captain Thomas Stockwell, Eliz-Jas I.
Here's a head-scratcher: figure out this #letterlocking if you can!
And, saith Beal's Dict of MSS Terminology, fermesse were possibly also used (by women) "as a mark of affection". This would be in line with two other signs of intimacy: a) the letter is holograph, and b) the #letterlocking is of an intimate type.
#manuscripts #letters
Which paper should I propose to write for ESSE 2020? The first two would be about early modern epistolary #materiality (#SignificantSpace and #letterlocking), the third about how palaeographical vocabulary is used in studies of early modern mss.
And check out this cool insert of #seals #SealingWax #letterlocking #signets #manuscripts #NotTheMammal
An installation of letters - written (by kids I guess?) to Harry Potter as part of an exhibition on HP and magic π #letterlocking
I meant to use a dip pen, but I found to my annoyance that the paper hadn't been sized, so the ink bled mightily. So had to use a modern pen β but otoh it took less time to write these!
#calligraphy #palaeography #letterlocking
Dreamt about #letterlocking all night, woke up to fire alarm, convinced They're reading my letters.
#EpistolaryCultures
Coatalen shows imgs of some letters at St Pete's sealed with silk floss #letterlocking
#EpistolaryCultures
Looking for lazy Sunday reading? Here's one about <s>origami</s> #letterlocking https://x.com/samklai/status/708616766604353536
I went and blogged about #letterlocking - how people c1600 folded letters and what social meanings they carried.
http://bit.ly/1XkqoAz
Also, I sent in my abstract late. :-P So I'm very grateful to even be considered.
It'll be my first paper on #letterlocking too. Excited!
Lucas Haasis's paper is about the materiality of letters β I assume also about #letterlocking
#RSA15
I mean, there is no other resource that can provide a balanced framework to build on. Age, gender, region, social rank..
#letterlocking
