Crosswritten between the lines

After the digital palimpsest I was thinking about crosswriting. Hover or click to see the text better. The effect will absolutely be lost in an RSS reader and I've no idea how it will look, sorry. The last one also doesn't look great on mobile. Another way people were saving money on parchment - and postage - was crosswriting. When stationery is expensive and postage is charged by the sheet (as well as distance) you are going to maximise your usage of that sheet. Envelopes counted as a page, which is why no one used envelopes. Also, the recipient pays so it's taking a bit of a liberty. Crosswriting was usually at a ninety-degree angle, could be a full one-eighty, or even forty-five. Or all three at the same time. Good grief. How on earth they read them I do not know. Especially using messy ink and with that handwriting. Sometimes a different colour ink was used, throwing a lifeline. Many letters are also "Margin? What margin?" Exhausting. Even above I've used the 180, increased the…

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