Starting A New Blog for Non-Brewing Topics
http://sundries.alecstory.org I intend to keep this one focused on brewing, but some of this audience might find non-brewing medieval topics interesting.
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I Found a Better Name
I took a trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in late September because I thought there was an exhibit on Chinese laquer ware that was going to close soon. I had the year wrong, it's opening and closing in 2017. Whoops. Instead, I took a stroll through the Chinese collection, on the lookout for drinking cups I could replicate, and took a ton of photos for my friends with research interests. There was a lot of debate about what exactly this woman is holding happening in the SCA China facebook group , and I happened to be walking past the statue at the time so I took some video and helped answer the question. I also took a look at the scrolls section since I have friends who do beautiful calligraphy and are always looking for ideas. I came across this beautiful scroll : Which is titled, politely, "Drinking and composing poetry." Except it isn't. Here's the title colophon Read right-to-left, these are foot-high characters that read LITERAT...