| Project: | Apprenticeship Indenture for Adrienne & Isabel |
| Words: | Mistress Alys Mackyntoich & Mistress Isabel Chamberlain |
| Calligraphy: | Lord Alexandre Saint Pierre |
| Paper: | 9" x 12" Parchment by David de Rosier-Blanc |
| Script: | My own Secretary Hand |
| Pens: | Mitchell #6 and #4 |
| Inks: | Ian the Green's Iron Gall Ink |
| Inspiration: | Multiple, see below |
Bureaucracy, red-tape and forms filled out in triplicate: not things most people think of when they think of beautiful documents. But in reality, almost as soon as humans invented writing, we started using it to record legal agreements between people. Medieval contracts are just as verbose as our modern day legalese. But in those days before carbon paper and ball point pens, they had a much more artistic way of handling the need for each party to a contract walking away with a copy: the Indentured Chirograph.
