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The use of panels of different colored silks and of writing in various colored inks was typical of these scrolls.
Light brown offset printed cloud texture on scroll with golden foil border on both sides gives this scroll a new and exciting look.
The gouache is too thick in several places, the whitework is.... amateurish, and the colors are iffy.... but it is DONE!
Animal with scroll . Detail of carving on bressummer at W A Church, Bures, Suffolk. Restored in the 20th century but, as the arms featured on the centre of the beam relate to Henry VII, it is almost certainly of Tudor origin.
Scroll of Fire is a monument found in the Jerusalem hills, and it commemorates Jewish history from The Holocaust until Independence. The monument was inaugurated in 1971.
The initiative for the monument came from B'nai B'rith of the United States, and was funded by them. The monument was sculptured by the artist Nathan Rapoport, who is a Holocaust survivor.
One of the scrolls describes the Holocaust and the other describes independence. In the space between the two scrolls, there are two rooms of memorial, and in each one is engraved a quote from the bible.
This was meant to illustrate the building of the famous Kiyomizudera temple in Kyoto.
At the Tokyo National Museum. This is one of Japan's oldest museums, and showcases Japanese archeological exhibits, art and artefacts. The Japanese Gallery presents the "Highlights of Japanese Art" which indeed gives an excellent introduction.
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This ring was hand formed from 16 gauge sterling silver wire. The scrolls were made using round nose pliers, the ring was soldered together and then lightly hammered prior to being polished to a mirror finish.