Crafts By Two Hands

✨My hands and the possibilities of creation✨ We are eclectic and curious, we like exploring different media and techniques. In love with Art Nouveau style ,symbolism and ornamental art.

[depsidase]

[rajamie]

the (trans) seasons

prints at https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/rajamie/

[craftsbytwohands]

Mucha would approve!

[kazs-inej]

FLEABAG: S02E01 SAM SAX: HYDROPHOBIA

[heaveninawildflower]

November - Sagitario illustration taken from ‘Blanco y Negro’.

Published 1891 by Prensa Española.

Getty Research Institute.

archive.org

[chic-a-gigot]

La Mode illustrée, no. 43, 28 octobre 1894, Paris. Robe de réception. Modèle de chez Mmes Coussinet-Piret, rue Richer, 43. Ville de Paris / Bibliothèque Forney

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✧* Vintage Flower Fairies by Cicely Mary Barker ✧*

[justletmescrolll]

what it’s like to own a black cat

[craftsbytwohands]

cats catting !

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Image taken from the dutch book " Waar gebeurd" by Ilonka and Leonard de Vries. This books collects a selection of articles and wood engravings from the Victorian English week magazine "The Days' Doings" (1870-1871).

[lifehacksthatwork]

Just a bunch of useful websites

12ft – Hate paywalls? Try this site out.

My Fridge Food – No idea what to make? Tell this site what ingredients you have on hand and it will give you recipes to cook.

Project Gutenberg – Always ends up on these type of lists and for very good reason. All works that are copyright free in one place.

Ninite – New PC? Install all of your programs in one go with no bloat or unnecessary crap.

Unchecky – Tired of software trying to install additional unwanted programs? This will stop it completely by unchecking the necessary boxes when you install.

Sci-Hub – Research papers galore! Check here before shelling out money. And if it’s not here, try the next link in our list.

LibGen – Lots of free PDFs relate primarily to the sciences.

Zotero – A free and easy to use program to collect, organize, cite and share research.

Car Complaints – Buying a used car? Check out what other owners of the same model have to say about it first.

CamelCamelCamel – Check the historical prices of items on Amazon and set alerts for when prices drop.

Have I Been Pawned – Still the king when it comes to checking if your online accounts have been released in a data breach. Also able to sign up for email alerts if you’ve ever a victim of a breach.

Radio Garden – Think Google Earth but wherever you zoom, you get the radio station of that place.

Just The Recipe – Paste in the url and get just the recipe as a result. No life story or adverts.

Tineye – An Amazing reverse image search tool.

My 90s TV – Simulates 90’s TV using YouTube videos. Also has My80sTV, My70sTV, My60sTV and for the younger ones out there, My00sTV. Lose yourself in nostalgia.

Foto Forensics – Free image analysis tools.

Old Games Download – A repository of games from the 90’s and early 2000’s. Get your fix of nostalgia here.

Online OCR – Convert pictures of text into actual text and output it in the format you need.

Remove Background – An amazingly quick and accurate way to remove backgrounds from your pictures.

Twoseven – Allows you to sync videos from providers such as Netflix, Youtube, Disney+ etc and watch them with your friends. Ad free and also has the ability to do real time video and text chat.

Terms of Service, Didn’t Read – Get a quick summary of Terms of service plus a privacy rating.

Coolors – Struggling to get a good combination of colors? This site will generate color palettes for you.

This To That – Need to glue two things together? This’ll help.

Photopea – A free online alternative to Adobe Photoshop. Does everything in your browser.

BitWarden – Free open source password manager.

Atlas Obscura – Travelling to a new place? Find out the hidden treasures you should go to with Atlas Obscura.

ID Ransomware – Ever get ransomware on your computer? Use this to see if the virus infecting your pc has been cracked yet or not. Potentially saving you money. You can also sign up for email notifications if your particular problem hasn’t been cracked yet.

Way Back Machine – The Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites and loads more.

Rome2Rio – Directions from anywhere to anywhere by bus, train, plane, car and ferry.

Splitter – Seperate different audio tracks audio. Allowing you to split out music from the words for example.

myNoise – Gives you beautiful noises to match your mood. Increase your productivity, calm down and need help sleeping? All here for you.

DeepL – Best language translation tool on the web.

Forvo – Alternatively, if you need to hear a local speaking a word, this is the site for you.

[deforest]

JOSEPHINE BAKER in PRINCESS TAM TAM 1935 │ dir. Edmond T. Gréville

[pearliegates]

this whole situation is very funny

credit to @cryptvokeeper for the idea!

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Eugène Grasset  (1845–1917)

La Belle Jardiniere 1896

[craftsbytwohands]

May is here…. Embrace the change.

[uwmspeccoll]

Wood Engraving Wednesday

J. J. LANKES

Julius John Lankes (1884-1960) was an American illustrator, wood engraver, and woodcut artist. Influenced by the Arts & Crafts movement, Lankes helped elevate wood relief prints to a fine art, executing over 1300 prints in his career. One of the last books he illustrated with wood engravings was Wisconsin author and publisher August Derleth’s Country Poems, shown here, printed in Iowa City by Carroll Coleman at his Prairie Press in 1956. Coleman printed the text in Bulmer Roman and Original Oldstyle Italic types. Our copy is a gift from our friend Jerry Buff.

View more posts with wood engravings!

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It’s Fine Press Friday!

On this Fine Press Friday we present some pages from Will Bradley’s design and printing of Stephen Crane’s War is Kind, published in New York by Frederick A. Stokes in 1899. Printed on dark grey paper, this is the only edition of Crane’s second collection of poems, published a year before his death.

An artist, illustrator, filmmaker, printer, and type designer, Will Bradley (1868-1962) was one of the foremost American graphic designers of the 20th century, and this work is one of the most visually-memorable American trade publications of the 1890s. Although Bradley’s style exhibits many of the hallmarks of Art Nouveau, his aesthetic was also strongly influence by the Arts & Crafts movement. Often criticized as an American knock-off of Aubrey Beardsley, Bradley’s early style was already well-established before Beardsley’s popularity in the mid-1890s.

Our copy of War is Kind is yet another gift from our friend Jerry Buff.  

View another post on Will Bradley’s type ornaments.

View more Fine Press Friday posts.

[damagedgoodsrecovery]

Anxiety. Constant anxiety. They dont need to yell at me for me to know they are angry at me. I can pick this up by the most subtle things they do. I have become really good at gauging their mood. I would notice the hostile atmosphere without them having to say a word. This would immediately trigger my anxiety. The heart would become heavy and I would feel distressed. So yes, I understand the phrase "my heart sank" really well. I wish I didn't. Because it is not a good feeling at all.

[craftsbytwohands]

«Voy a salir y puede que tarde un rato».

- Capitán Lawrence Oates

[littlepennydreadful]

'The Slav Epic' cycle No.1: The Slavs in Their Original Homeland. Between the Turanian Whip and the Sword of the Goths (between the 3rd and 6th centuries AD). (1912)

Mucha chose to start his history of the Slavic people in the 4th to 6th centuries. At this time, the Slavic tribes were agricultural folk who dwelled in the marshes between the Vistula River, the Dnepr River, the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea. With no political structure to support them, their villages were under constant attack by Germanic tribes from the West who would burn their houses and steal their livestock.The couple hiding in the bushes in the foreground as their village burns on the horizon are the survivors of one of these attacks. The fear and vulnerability expressed in their faces beseeches the help of the viewer. A pagan priest flanked by two youths symbolising war and peace floats in the top right of the composition. These figures foretell the peace and freedom that will come to the Slav people when independence is gained through war.