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There are few if any opportunities to view one of the extant Ripley Scrolls. There are four total outside of private hands with known copies limited to just 23 in four flavors. Having come across a high definition photo of one of the scrolls, an idea of having a scroll of our own to ponder over at the Library table came to mind. Thus inspired, I’ve come up with a way in which try our hand at it, the making of it, albeit slightly smaller in length by 5 feet. The original is 18ft long and about 24 inches wide. The exemplar that we’ll be making is 16 inches wide by 13 feet long. This limited by my printer page size of 17 x 11 inches. Not sure it’d be worth the expense to have an exact copy printed.
My thought is to have a workshop toward the end of the process for those who wish to have a hand in it, the process and the finishing of it. In the back of my mind is a lecture with a keynote speaker and dinner. Who knows.
In the works, I have the 14 sheets printed out and ready to be mounted to – something. I’ll try a roll of linen first and go from there. There are so many ways to screw this up that I’m sure it will take more than one try at it with the resulting product, maybe, just maybe, worth the effort. No promises.
