RPG Fan and aspiring artist

[swotavator]

Guys,
This is what I mean about parchment. It was the main material for western cultures to write on till about the late 16th century, coinciding till about the time the printing press came about. The result, almost any hand-made medieval map was painted on parchment not on paper.
This is the only place that sells real parchment: http://www.pergamena.net/index.php
It is essentially stretched, dried and sanded goat, sheep or calf skin.
It looks neat. The constitution was made on parchment. Much more robust than paper. Its funny, because of modern craft stores, when people think parchment they just think stained paper.

Here is a famous map painted on parchment:http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/users/nnj/GoughMap_large.jpg
this is what medieval maps would look like

[Noon]

Hello and welcome here.

I'm very busy currently and I don't have much time to comment maps. However I saw your handmade map and I appreciated it.

I make handmade maps (and also "GIMPmade" maps), with ink, watercolor, gouache, colored pencil, callygraphy ... and everything with a medieval style.
You can see some works in my album.
I'm currently making a set of five handmade maps for the Rhim world (have a look in my album). I will show them as soon as possible.

So if you have questions, do not hesitate

[hubbardmapworks]

nice work. this is a hardcopy? how long did this take?
i met a local here who's into calligraphy:
http://www.vintagewriting.com/
welcome to the forum

[ravells]

I may be missing something (probably am), but I think the link that swotavator posted is not of a map that he made but of a historical map in the bodlean library in Oxford University....