sister_raphael | A commission begins! 15th century medieval comb

I have commissioned a piece of work from an Italian craftsman, Ezio Zanini. I have long wished for a 15th century carved comb, but not a regular one, a highly detailed one with inlays! Ezio can not only make such things, but because each job is hard, time intensive and so very special, he does not make more than one comb of each type. This is a little disappointing for me as the exact one I wanted had already been made for someone, so i could not have one of those, but after searching museums and carefully considering options, we found a design with measurements and clear images of both front and back with measurements, and we settled on a price.

The waiting list was 8 months long at that point, and some of his other works took a little longer than expected so it was almost 10 months before he contacted me ready to start and checked in to see if I still wanted it.

I cannot tell you how incredibly excited I am that it is started! Please look forward to more "making of" photos... He started with cherry wood and bone!!

The next step of Ezio Zanini 's incredible project shows how the cherry wood is cut to size and shaped at the sides while the bone pieces are flattened and cut into the many, many pieces he needs for the project!