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~ Pease & Davis, 1862
Printer: How can I help you, Sir?
Philander P. Pease: I'd like to place an ad listing all the things we sell, but I'd like every line to have a different font
I’m making postcards out of old calendars and cereal boxes rn… Is this one from last year’s Edward Gorey centennial calendar too threatening?
hey.
A Nest Within Briars comes out June 21st.
you can preorder it on Amazon or literally anywhere else
we gotta get back into revolving bookcases i'm begging
truly we allow the pinnacles of human achievement to wither and collapse into ashes in the wind
Looking for disability crafts I can do sitting in bed, so I’m channeling my inner grandma. Richelieu cutwork doily from a pattern I drew myself. Here is a link if anyone wants it!
Henry, Prince of Wales (future king Henry V). By Herbert Norris.
Please explain the needle gown
The needle gown is something you wear when you do a totally normal display of filial loyalty towards your father and need a disguise. In the First English of Henry the Fifth, we're told the then-Prince Henry:
disguised himselfe in a gowne of blewe satten or damaske made full of iletts or holes, and at euerie ilet the needle wherewith it was made hanginge there by the thridde of silke [disguised himself in a gown of blue satin or damask made full of eyelets or holes, and at every eyelet the needle with which it was made was hanging there by a thread of silk]
~ Popular Mechanics, April 1930
The party's a flop until Bob and his harmonica show up. Be like Bob
Going through the pile of books to go to charity shops and there’s this amazing kids history one that’s literally like
Give your friend a neolithic burial
Exactly
I’m so glad this post is finally reaching the people it was meant for; weird little kids who liked playing history and death
The book also had instructions for making a paper replica of a mammoth bone/hide hut 🦣 🛖 and I was never allowed to take over the living room and do it
Reblog to give your mutuals a neolithic burial 🦴🌼⚱️🗡️
If you really loved me you’d give me a neolithic burial
My second attempt at sewing a somewhat historically accurate fencing doublet for HEMA is complete! I based it on a reconstructed pattern for a pourpoint worn by Charles VI around 1378/79.
Is it perfect? NO!!!
Does it protect me from the swords of my foes? KIND OF!!!
Also, I have a fencing foil now
and so I did!
#i wanna see the collection and how they differ
Say no more, here they all are! (I post about them more on my sewing & art blog @vincentbriggs, though I'm afraid I haven't got proper tags for each individual machine.)
c. 1885 White VS2, made in the U.S. Basic straight stitch treadle in good working order. It came to me very dirty and needed a lot of cleaning and a new drive belt & bobbin winder tire.
Singer 15-91, made in Canada sometime between 1936-48. This was my first one, which I bought refurbished when I moved out of my parents house, since it's pretty similar to the one I grew up using. It came with a knee lever but after a few years the speed control box failed and I replaced it with a foot pedal.
1945 Bernina KL 105, made in Switzerland. This is my most recent acquisition and I haven't started on the cleaning & refurbishing yet, but I'm excited to use it! It's a treadle that has backstitch and drop feed.
Gimbels department store branded Singer 15 clone, made in Japan. No idea what the date is, but the style of the logo makes me think maybe 50's? All cleaned and stitching again, though I still need to put the motor back on. The case was too rotten to save, so I've got to learn how to make a new one. Being a 15 clone, it's extremely similar to my Singer 15, but there are quite a lot of differences in the smaller external parts and it has a much better drop feed system.
1958 Singer 99k, made in Scotland. All cleaned and adjusted, and my father helped rewire it, but I still need to finish fixing up the wooden case. It wasn't so bad as the previous one, but it's in no condition to stain so I'm going to paint it. This one's something of a foster kitten, as I've promised it to a friend.
1964 Singer 185J, made in Canada. I've cleaned it up and replaced the missing bobbin plate, but I need to make a new wooden case for this one too because the plastic case it came in was all cracked and warped. It's the same basic machine as the 99k, just in a more space age style shape. The bobbin winder is more stripped down, but other than that the workings are identical.
1970 Pfaff 360, made in Germany. This was the second machine I got, and it was meant to be a backup because this was when my 15-91 speed control was acting up. The pebbled greige paint job is horrendously fugly, but it's a splendid piece of engineering. I still need to get around to taking apart and unsticking one particular area, but if I'm successful in that it'll be able to do zig zag, plus a variety of other fancy stitches controlled by that nice stack of cams on the left.
The 2 treadles were given to me, the 15-91 was bought refurbished as mentioned, and the other 4 electric machines were thrifted.
As you can see from observing the shape of the newer ones compared to the older ones, sewing machines are born with a large store of baby fat and they become scrawnier as they age.
The thing is that the portrayal of Neanderthals as having been inherently grotesque and alien to H. sapiens is something we will never have proof of. But we do have proof that, in different locations and in different populations across time, we all found eachother desirable. We saw eachother and wanted to touch. And the offspring were held by their mothers and raised and had their own offspring in turn.
When you look for the first proof that H. sapiens found Neanderthals repulsive, you have to wait until the Victorian era, when the white masters of empires were busy portraying Neanderthals as stupid, brutish, and (of course) dark-skinned.
In more modern times, we’ve had people arguing that instead of seeing Neanderthals as Benighted Savages, they should instead be seen as Noble Savages, (allegedly) cruelly destroyed and driven from their lands by H. sapiens. Which one of their two you believe says more about your modern political views than it does about ancient H. sapiens.
And, whether we construct Neanderthals as Savage or Noble Savage, the fundamental assumption we project into the unfathomably distant past is still that H. sapiens saw Neanderthals as an Other, with the language we use being almost explicitly that of modern racial dynamics.
But we have no proof of any of that. We have no proof of hostilities. We know we co-existed and we had sex. That’s it.
Humans obviously have sex with some humans and kill others. We also know that, when small groups of humans occupy vast spaces with infrequent contact with others, unique cultures will always form, some more hospitable, some more neophobic/xenophobic. But many cultures of small settlements placed among huge unpeopled landscapes place supreme emphasis on hospitality to strangers. Plus, we fucking love other social animals, as evidenced by how we befriended wolves.
I’m a humourless weirdo and a wet blanket about popular constructions of Neanderthals as “monstrous”, and I freely admit it. But that’s because it’s tied up in legacies of imperialism. Not only that, but it also privileges one culture (yours, mine, modernity’s) as being most human by implicitly assuming we can project it onto people in the past. Since you don’t pretend that all global cultures share exact same values as you do, it doesn’t take more than a few moments’ reflection to realise you can’t do that to the past.
We also have more and more proof of how inventive, social and caring the Neanderthals were. So I really don't believe that the Homo sapiens would have found them particularly weird and unlikeable or hard to get along with.
Homo sapiens on twitter, 90,000BC:
Can I say something? 🥴😳
sometimes I think about the fact they probably wouldn't have known neanderthals were particularly different from them
Like, idk, we have a wide phenotype variation, idk why someone back then wouldn't have just been like Those Guys Have A Slightly Different Shaped Head.
Yeah if anything, rather than being “monsters”, they were the original Short Kings.
Compare the two Neanderthals examples on the left with the H. sapiens skeleton on the right:
I love reconstructions because I see someone from long ago and think "That's Dave"
there's a strange irony in neanderthals being named after the Neandertal Valley in Germany that their remains were first found in, which valley was in turn named after Joachim Neander, whose surname literally means "new man" in greek and was translated from the german of his family name Neumann
theyre just neanders, the new guys of the valley, and we love them
Neanderthals simply bred slower than anatomically modern humans - so they were not outfought, just outfucked.
but the two* kinds would surely have intermingled. Neanderthals would have been physically impressive, and very useful in a hunt against large prey - of COURSE some of our ancestors would have found them desirable, would have wanted Neanderthals in their tribe for their strength. and to Neanderthals, we would have been fascinating - taller, thinner versions of themselves, baby-faced and impossibly fleet-footed, with the most beautifully decorated tools and clothing (their own tools were originally plain - survival-focused products of an ice age - till they met us)
*actually at least three kinds, the mysterious Denisovans were kicking around also, and ALSO interbred with both the Neanderthals AND us new guys. everyone was bangin'!
TL;DR they never really died out, they just became part of us because we liked to fuck more.
oh god Clan of the Cave Bear was right all along
Scientists think Neanderthals had upwards of twice the calorie budget of modern humans, and had a considerably more carnivorous (protein-heavy) diet when us. So yeah, they probably read as incredibly athletic.
oh yeah, good point, Neanderthals were Ice Age survival machines - both males and females seem to have been hunters, because they apparently needed Lots of Meat. fun fact I read somewhere is that Neanderthal skeletons typically have a pattern of injuries (small healed bone breaks, etc) that is still seen today in rodeo clowns.
that's also another reason I think Neanderthals would have preferentially moved into AMH settlements - because of shared labour (i.e. greater numbers) the living would have been so much easier, and by Neanderthal standards the food would have been incredible. instead of meat (roasted) plus vegetable (miscellaneous), the friendly yet numerous new guys a few valleys across just invented a kind of turtle egg-and-herbs soup that smells better than ANYTHING you've ever eaten (roast meat), and they eat it WHENEVER THEY WANT. I think it's reasonable to think at least some Neanderthal youngsters - as intelligent as us* - would have looked at that village of lazy living, easy sex, and good food, compared it to their current life, and made the same decision that you or I would have. hello my tall new friends!
(* just as intelligent and just as articulate - they had the same speech gene adaptions as us)
TL;DR so it wasn't just the fucking, we were maybe also great cooks
So two things:
First, if you want to seduce people in general learning to cook will still get you a long way today.
Second...
So basically we were Neandertal's elves ??
Baker’s Cocoa, 1911
Soothes both stomach and brain and ANY man can make it. Yes, even that one
Kodak Coquette Camera with matching lipstick and compact, 1930
at my local thrift warehouse where nothing’s priced and you make an offer on all the stuff you find. well i told the person at the register i’m on a budget and didn’t know if i could afford a rug i wanted and asked what they’d take for it and without missing even half a beat they said “how about a cup of blood?” then they started hopping up and down like a cheerleader and said “cup! of! blood!”
we settled on seventeen dollars cash.
patterns left by woodworms on driftwood
you learn something new everyday. unless you're a historian. then you learn something old
