QUILLS

בס"ד
18 Nisan/Pesach 4

No, not the art film featuring Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix & Michael Caine, I'm talking about these:

Kulmus (singular) or kulmusim (plural).
These are turkey quills I bought in Me'a Sharim. The whole story behind how I managed to do that is here.

The nib of the one on the left is 1.5 mm & I'm currently using that for writing the Megillot I'm working on right now (including a Megillat Esther & a Megillat Ha-Sho'ah, a Holocaust Scroll - pictures to follow). The one on the right has a nib of 0.5 mm & I use it to write Mezuzot. However, I cut & shape my quills to whatever width I require them to be, to match the sirtut/scoring of my parchment.

So I've joined MySpace. My profile on the site is a little sexier than it is on Blogger, so enjoy. I'm not sure if this is the proper link or if this is, but click 'em both. Why not? :)

Joining MySpace was my (future ex-) brother-in-law Jeremy's idea. All the kids are doing it. & we all know how easily I'm influenced by peer pressure ;)

Jeremy (he's mentioned in & comments on this post) & I spent most of First Day Chag together & we went to the Second Seder together. He's great. It had been way too long since we'd hung out. :)

Shavu'ah tov!!! Have a matzahdik Pesach!!!




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