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mapsontheweb

The Journey of Odysseus

sovietpostcards

Soviet pins, stamps, Aeroflot luggage labels. Photos by Irving Snider (1972).

acrilici

mio papà mi ha fatta crescere tra musica classica e jazz e film neorealisti e del nuovo cinema italiano: uno tra questi film è "i basilischi" di lina wertmüller e chi si è occupato della colonna sonora merita una marea di riconoscimenti in quanto in una parte del film viene menzionata "la controra" (chi è del sud capirà) ovvero una specifica parte della giornata, nel primo pomeriggio dopo pranzo, dove, soprattutto nei paesi, per strada non trovi nessuno perché sono tutti a casa a dormire e riposarsi, proprio per quella parte lì è stata creata una musica che senza dire nulla racchiude perfettamente tutto il senso della controra e ogni volta che la ascolto mi vengono i brividi anche perché mi ricorda tantissimo uno spaccato della mia vita passato nel paese dei miei nonni al quale sono tutt'ora super affezionata

fatalquiete

Caghiamo, fino a che ce lo fanno fare.

smsomah

For Bedouin women who live along the coast or on Masirah Island during the winter months, seashells serve as a handy repository for kohl, made from the soot of burned shark's liver.

A poultice of powdered sandal is applied to the face as a sunscreen, and as an aromatic skin conditioner with exfoliating properties.

Scanned from the book The Craft Heritage of Oman; 2003; Neil Richardson & Marcia Dorr

horrorcitos

Rakel.h.s.w

nemfrog

[Jeu de whist au portrait allemand à deux têtes édité pour la Turquie et le Levant] : 1902.

Gallica

witchrealms

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0fficelady

Collection

hollowedskin

My whole life I've known that you must leave at least one mistake in your knitting or crochet or tapestry, because spirits/demons can get lost in the perfection of the stitches and be unable to find their way out.

If you don't want a haunted scarf, you have to leave a mistake as an exit point.

syntax-forest

This is beautiful but I can't help but think that at least one of these originated with like, someone who fucked up their knitting and managed to convince everyone else it was intentional.

hollowedskin

I'm almost certain this is what happened. Because whenever I am close to finishing a crochet project, especially something in the round where each row is more work than the last, and I find a mistake in the last row as I'm stitching into it

The closer I am to finishing and not wanting to undo 2h worth of work to change that one single into a double, the more likely I am to go "well. That's the demons stitch then isn't it", and leave it be.

The demon stitch absolutely gives my ocd toxic perfectionism a loophole to allow something to remain a mistake, which is why I choose to believe in it.

ave-aria

oh, haha. a loophole.

awlwren

[id: a collection of screenshots:

The idiom "Persian flaw", meaning a deliberate mistake said to originate from the notion that Persian weavers would intentionally leave imperfections in each rug in the belief that only God's creations are perfect, and to weave a perfect rug would be an insult to God.[67]

"Your handmade items should always have at least one mistake, to keep you safe from the fairies." There is also a (disputed) Amish version of this, which is that all handmade items should have a deliberate mistake because only god is perfect. Navajo weavers have a similar tradition, in order to preserve their creativity: After the year 1900, the "spirit line" became a popular element for many traditional Navajo weavers…The traditional weaver became very concerned about trapping their creative spirit within the weaving and not being able to weave in the future. The "spirit line" is a small strand of yarn of contrasting color that flows from the inner design element of the weaving to the outer edge. The custom continues today in many contemporary Navajo rugs.

The Native American women who have traditionally created intricate, beadwoven pieces intentionally string on a bead of the wrong color in a pattern. This bead is called a spirit bead. The spirit bead was placed in an otherwise flawless piece of art as an act of humility, a way of recognizing the inherent imperfection of humans. Presuming the human could create something perfect would be an affront to the true perfection of the gods.[*]

Everyone knows the fae will come and steal away people wearing perfect knitting. By including some mistakes in the finished piece, the imperfection/asymmetry will confuse the fairies, and keep your loved one safe.

"Irish people culturally believe that when you knit something, you knit a piece of your soul into your project. And so Irish knitters purposely knit one mistake into their project so that their soul can escape. Otherwise you're breaking off little pieces of yourself every time you give someone something that you knit."]/end id.