Hi Ed,
I have seen some Irish bonds that have a border adapted from the Book of Durrow.
Same idea but not as original. Yours looks very good. There is probably a fair
market for this sort of thing. I know we could use something like that for gift
certificates. What do AOH charter documents look like? Maybe you could offer an
graphics upgrade for those, framable and all that. I saw some very elaborate
charter documents for a similar organisation in Austrailia. Great big things
with portraits of the founding officers included.
Steve Walker

--- In Celtic_Art@yahoogroups.com, Ed Rooney <lisburn1979@...> wrote:
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> Folks,
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> Every year, my Division of the AOH gives Grants to a couple of graduating 8th
graders who wish to continue their education in one of the Catholic High Schools
in Philadelphia. Usually we try to find students who are deserving and have a
great need (one or more parents are out of work, or single parent family, etc.).
I was commissioned - can you call it a commission even if there is no pay? - to
create a certificate to accompany the check to hand the student at their 8th
grade graduation. In the past I contented myself to throw together some simple
design with a celtic border, but this year I tried my hand at making something a
little more intricate. I was trying to imitate the detail of a "Goes" border
(you've probably seen them, they look like stock certificates), while still
maintaining the "rules" of celtic interlace. I have placed a JPEG of this
year's certificate in my "Photos" section. Has anyone else done something like
this, I'd love to see
> some other artist's ideas on this.
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> Thanks,
> Ed
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