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1. Beginning the megillah on a clean sheet of ruled klaf.
2. The first amud done it is protected with a sheet of tracing paper.
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Starting a new sheet is always a bit daunting as you tend to get better as you write and you are always a little unsure of the quality of the klaf and how the quill will work with it. The klaf I purchased was supplied ready ruled which meant that I didn’t have to mark our the lines with my sargel though had this is not always the case.
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3. Two sheets completed . The work continues.
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4. A close up of a later amud. 5. The ten sons of Haman written as a single column. This section has a number of large and small letters and the bottom vav of vyzata is very large, representing the tree that the ten sons were hung upon. The megiilah took almost a year to write (mostly in the evenings). I started it the day after Purim and finished it on the following Purim in Harlow Synagogue.
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6. For this particular megillah I used a 28 line hamelech tikkun (copyists guide) which meant 16 amudim (columns) and 4 yeriot (sheets). The sheets therefore needed to be joined together using giddin (animal sinew)
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8. The last amud as you can see has a line missing (actually half a line) which will be filled in later at the siyyum (completion ceremony).
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