Lavena got me into this.  "I can get cheap king-sized sheets…we should make murals for Daggers & Hemlock to decorate the hall!  I’ll buy twelve!"

I was thinking: murals require skilled labor and planning.  Our shire has maybe two people who could do this, and I’m one of them.  I don’t have enough artistic energy left at the end of the day to do TWELVE murals.  But maybe stained glass windows…because someone else has already planned them, and coloring within black lines, anyone can do that…

At that point the filter between my brain and my mouth gave in, and I suggested stained glass windows, at which point I found myself In Charge.

Which turned out to be A Good Thing, because then I could make Executive Decisions about changing the sheets from trying to replicate stained glass windows (which could never be very convincing, due to the totally disparate natures of painted cotton versus colored glass) to instead illustrating the designs to be made into stained glass windows.  Also an Executive Decision cutting the number in half to SIX.

So what these sheetwalls are, are full-scale drawings of designs for stained glass windows.  And as such, they should have notes on them, approving them for use by the appropriate authority in a particular place, as of a particular date.

They are noted in the Dover book as:

(monk with model of church)
Detail from the Life and Martyrdom of St. Marguerite.  Church of St. Marguerite, Ardagger, Austria.  1226-1241.

King David.  Bourges Cathedral.  Ca. 1200

The People of Reims.  Possibly from Soissons Cathedral.  Ca. 1215.

Virgin and Child; Adoration of the Magi.  From the Bible window, Cologne Cathedral.  1275-1280.

(Left) King David. (Right) The Prophet Daniel.  Augsburg Cathedral.  Late 11th century.

Samson Rising the Gates of Gaza.  From the Alspirbach Abbey.  1180-1200.

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I know I promised Somebody that I’d take pictures of all of these…but I don’t have a big wall and enough distance to do them photographic justice until the event (on Aug 25! in air-conditioned comfort!), so we’ll all have to wait until then.  Sorry.