Ahoy there and welcome aboard. This ible will take you on a journey along the coastlines and across all of the 7 wretched seas on a spirit of freedom and high adventure (without scurvy and other sailing-related misfortunes of times gone by). And oh, we have sea monsters too.

Poetics apart, this instructables is about how we (wife and I) manufactured the said map.

So, why draw a world map, when you can buy one, even a vintage world map replica for pretty cheap (you could buy an original ancient map if you're willing to pull from 10k up to U$100k out of the bank account)? Well, there are number of reasons why:

We wanted our world map to:

- Be composed of a special paper (an actutal calligraphy parchment with real texture and not a shiny couche with parchment print)

- Have the contemporary shape on the continents AND the layout of older 16th -18th century maps (yes South America, we'll do your shape some justice).

- Show no names of cities, states or countries. Only continent names allowed.

- Depict illustrations of vessels, sea monsters, mountain chains, amongst other illustrations.

- Use our skills with quill and ink that we are so fond of practicing (ok fine that was the original reason).

- Have our choice of theme surrounding the map section of the paper (border)

So on and so forth let's get to it alright