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Poland, 19th C. Egg decorated with micrographic text from the Song of Songs. Handwritten in ink. From the 18th century, and perhaps even earlier, hollow eggs on which sacred texts had been written in micrography were used to decorate European sukkahs. Not all the texts related directly to the holiday of Sukkot, the Festival of Booths: this example has Song of Songs 1-4:7 inscribed in miniscule letters. At times feathers were added to the hanging egg, so that it looked like a bird in flight.”
WRONG WRITERS >|< Richard Matheson (2014)
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Kelly Rowland texting Nelly via Microsoft Excel and then getting annoyed when he doesn’t text back.
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Submitted by Willgallia:
Drawing portraits of Mathematicians with space filling curves. (Some are only discrete space filling).
The final drawings looks like the image below.Thanks for the submission, Will Gallia! These are amazing!!! For those of you who don’t know what space filling curves are, I wrote a post about them a while back.
To see more of Will Gallia’s cool drawings, click here. :D
Medieval dachshund – Or: drawing with words
Here are three examples of a technique called “micrography”: decorative scenes that are drawn with words written in a tiny script. While there are examples from Latin books made in the West (here is one), the technique is particularly common in medieval Hebrew manuscripts. The drawings are usually found in biblical manuscripts and they appear to be commentaries to the text. The technique, whereby a scribe wrote in the smallest handwriting possible, goes back to the 9th century AD. The examples here, from the 13th century, shows just how entertaining the word-made drawings can be: they are an opportunity for the scribe to frolick in the margins of the page – like drawing a creature that looks like a dachshund.
Pic: London, British Library, Additional MS 21160 (13th century, more about the manuscript here). More about micrography here.