Re: [Mid] A+S Documentation

At 10:42 AM 5/28/97 +22300454, you wrote:
> Documentation is one of my less favorite things when it
>comes to A+S but one thing that really helps is to do the research for
>things before you make them. I know that not many people do this
>but it can be such a pain to try to document something after it is done
>because then you are sitting there trying to justify why you deviated
>from period technique where if you had simply looked at a few things
>before you had started you might have found that it was actually just as
>easy to do it in the more period way. Also in reguards to different judges
>interpreting primary, secondary etc. differently. I commented on this
>to Mistress Siban at Regionals and her feeling was that if more judges
>reviewed the rules in the A+S handbook on what primary secondary etc
>was there would be less of a problem. The way I understand it is
>that photographs published in a book such as from a museum etc are
>a primary source, but what is written about those photographs in that
>same book or introductions in that book are a secondary source.
>Most people consider the translation of Theophilus available from
>Dover to be a Primary source, but the technical translators comments
>in the foot notes of that translation are secondary. While I will agree that
>in many cases documentation does not have to be extremely long
>I tend to try to document a piece as if the judge who will be looking at
>it does not know anything about the techniques ahead of time. In some cases
>this has happened where a person is asked to judge in a category that
>they don't feel comfortable with so they can only judge to the criteria
>and the documentation. If I were to advise someone entering A+S for the
>first time I would suggest erring towards more rather than less because
>I think alot of people get frustrated if they don't get good scores
>With time and experience then those people will learn how to write
>water tight documentation. I appoligise for rambling on
>
>I saw lots of neat stuff this weekend at Kingdom A+S and Helping in the
>Tally Room had some great Fringe Benefits-I got to taste some of the
>Cordials. There was a really yummy peach or appricot one-not sure which
>and not sure whose it was but it was very nice :-)
>
>Lady Isabeau Pferdebandiger
>
>From: karen@addl.purdue.edu (Karen Stegmeier)

~~~~~~~~ AND...she won the Pentathalon!!!! Congradulations Isabeau, well
done. I loved your stained glass window... For those who did not get to
see it, it was about 30"x30" and done with period style pigments!!! And,
she did some lovely things with gilding on glass. A truly talented
woman....and she rides horses in the SCCA, too!!!

KHvS

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Received on Wed May 28 20:48:49 1997