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[clawmarks]

Au jardin des gemmes - Léonard Rosenthal - 1924 - via Internet Archive 

[nerunodaisuki]

[costcopizzablog]

July 18, 2026 - Maplewood, MN

[everydaylouie]

LOUIE'S PICKS VOL. 1 - vinyl/cd/cassette/guitar picks now available on needlejuice records!! a compilation album of some of my favorite tunes from over the years, one side of vocal tunes and one of instrumentals

(please pardon the album art, i made it in 2023 when i was still a blender newbie lol)

[dozydawn]

1849

[skeksis98]

Dinotopia (2002) Complete : James Gurney : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

US pilot Frank Scott, with his sons Karl and David, crash-lands a light plane in a tropical storm and they find themselves on an English-spe

okay so im stupid and could have been watching one of my all time favourite shows on archive this whole time

[dozydawn]

[rainbowlimenade]

vintage barbie art is so darling

[fillianore-moved]

so metropolitan museum of art has a register of books they’ve published that are out of print and that you can download for free! they’re mostly books on art, archeology, architecture, fashion and history and i just think that’s super useful and interesting so i wanted to share! you can find all of the books available here!

[skeksis98]

best car in my neighbourhood

[fragrantblossoms]

Käthe Hecht: Four young little owls and a long-eared owl, circa 1920/1930.

[costcopizzablog]

July 11, 2026 - Maplewood, MN

[unprettybutwellpolished]

GRAPHIC SUNSET & FLOWERS ~

This nail art... I don't know where I was going with this one lol. I guess the whole mani is cohesive. Let's say I tried something there lol.

Polishes I used :

Essie : V.I.Please

Essie : Empower-mint

Essie : You Know The Espadrille

OPI : Can't CTRL Me

OPI : I'm Yacht Leaving

OPI : Sickeningly Sweet

OPI : Mod About You

White Polish

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[mathysphere]

An Incomplete List of Fonts I Would Like to Digitize Someday

All from the Antique Pattern Library

This twisty one

This pleasantly-flourished simple one. it's quirky.

I have no clue how one would include backstitching in a font, but it would look so good

This Art Deco set, from a pamphlet where it shares space with both the most stunning animal illustrations you've ever seen and also the world's most baffling, hideous borders

This one has a lowercase set, too. In a modern context this reads more as a retro game font than a cross-stitch one.

these would look INSANE stitched. more of a monogram font than one for sentences, but who cares. I could figure out some lowercases and this would absolutely COOK

Love the weight of this one. Gothic, fun, but not large enough to be unwieldy.

The first twisty font is better, I think. but if I had infinite time I'd do this one too

A very respectable twist on a classic sampler font. could get a lot of mileage out of this one

hot take but I think with a good lowercase set this one would also be good for a lot of things-- party in the capitals, but keep the lowercase legible.

a very respectable font. you could file your taxes with this one.

their bulbous forms entrance me. I REALLY like that 'H'

Another set that really should only be for monograms... but some part of me wants to believe I could make a proper font around these

LOVE the 'A', like the others. really dig that the original artist included a lowercase set, too

Bonus Monograms I like:

Blue Floral | Thick Line Red Floral | Right Angles

[tsulasgi]

So you want to make a basket

This will be a somewhat brief introductory post to flat reed basket weaving, these two patterns are provided. Below are SOME websites you can buy supplies at:

Basketweaving.com

Peerlessratten.com

Thecountryseat.com

Explore these websites, as you learn basket weaving there's different materials you can learn to use and replace others and these websites will often provide the tools you will need too. You can use dyes or stain for flat reed, I have more experience with dyeing which basically involves boiling the color and then dunking the reeds in it.

Flat reed is literally that, flat reeds. Many flat reeds used are commercial but some traditional ones will be made of splints from trees such as Ash or White Oak. They are soaked in water and then shaped and woven into the craft desired.

Source

These patterns will tell you how you will need to cut your reeds. You will need a water source, preferably a tub of some kind, an awl, measuring tool, and a flat workspace.

Tips:

Do not let your flat reeds stay wet for too long! Let it dry in an open air space when you are not working on it or when it is complete, FLAT REED CAN MOLD.

If you soak flat reed for too long it can become mushy and unusable, at the very least if you soak it for extended periods be careful with how you bend it.

Flat reed tends to (not always) have a 'rough' and 'smooth' side, you want the rough side to be on the inside of your basket.

If you're a flat reed has started to split trim it as close to the split as you can as quickly as you can or it spreads.

Starting is the most difficult part and no basket will look like the end result in the beginning. Getting overwhelmed is normal, come back to it, these are not projects you do in one sitting.

If I can I'm going to see about getting better scans of these and possibly uploading a step-by-step post. These websites provided also often have more basket weaving patterns and even kits.

[uwmspeccoll]

William Morris, Father of the Arts and Crafts Movement

William Morris’s Flowers was written by Rowan Bain, Principal Curator of the William Morris Gallery, London, and published by Thames and Hudson in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum in 2019. The book focuses on the original carpet, wallpaper, and fabric patterns Morris created over his lifetime and Bain attributes about 600 finished and unfinished patterns to Morris.

William Morris (1834-1896) was a textile artist heavily associated with both the Arts and Craft movement in Britain and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Following his final year at college, Morris and his friend Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898), also a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, swore they would dedicate their lives to becoming artists. Jones did, in fact, become a more “traditional” artist (by that I mean paint on canvas—this does not mean that Burne-Jones was more of a "True" artist than Morris) but Morris found himself drawn more to creating art through interior design. He would eventually establish Morris & Co. (originally named Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co.) in 1861, which became a well-known textile company in 19th century Britain. Morris & Co. can still be found selling patterns today, many of which are the same patterns William Morris himself designed. 

Morris’s inspirations came primarily from nature, which can very easily be seen in the winding flowers, vines, and leaves that make up his designs. He was critical of the society he lived in and how the rapid industrialization was destroying what he referred to as Britain’s “green and pleasant land.” This anxiety Morris held seemed to propel his interest in capturing the beauty of nature in his prints and to remind those who furnished their homes with his flowers that these images will be all that remains if Britain’s industrialization was not challenged.

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– Olivia, Special Collections Graduate Art History Fieldworker

[marcelshorjian]

A Victorian puzzle purse for a special someone's birthday 💌 ✨

See it unfolding here