Letterlocking: Robert Devereux’s spiral locked letter to Queen Elizabeth I, England (c.1590) from hot bl Watch Video
Preview(s):
Gallery
Play Video: (Note: The default playback of the video is HD VERSION. If your browser is buffering the video slowly, please play the REGULAR MP4 VERSION or Open The Video below for better experience. Thank you!)
Description: Modelled after Robert Devereux, Second Earl of Essex’s letter to Queen Elizabeth I of England (c. 1590), the British Library, Robert Devereux, Second Earl of Essex's letters addressed to Queen Elizabeth I (1590–1601), Add. MS 74286, fol. 1.nnIn order for the gorgeous, tightly-laced pattern to develop, a lock made of a flat and narrow band of paper must pass through a series of small slits made into itself and the letterpacket. nnLetters found with many slits parallel to and millimeters from
Play Video: (Note: The default playback of the video is HD VERSION. If your browser is buffering the video slowly, please play the REGULAR MP4 VERSION or Open The Video below for better experience. Thank you!)