Bird Wizard

[herpsandbirds]

Great blue heron shimmying on the shore near Waties Island, SC.

[a-state-of-bliss]

Jean Paul Gaultier Haute Couture Fall/Wint 2002

[birdandmoon]

Female birds with confusing names.

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[formlab]

Renato Nicolodi, Forum II, 2017

[othellho]

Ingram, John Henry, Flora Symbolica: The language and sentiment of flowers, (London: 1869).

[ocularshingles]

Free PDF at the Biodiversity Heritage Library

[mikkeneko]

#i was sceptical for a minute cause these illustrations don't match the plants in every case#(rounded dandelion leaves serrated willow leaves same leaves on crocus and aloe etc)#but these are the section headers NOT illustrations/representations of individual flowers#anyways. found a link. gorgeous book.

[thatwelshartist]

I was looking up facts about Cormorants to find a title for this and found out about the liver bird a mythological creature from liverpool that is literally just a cormorant which I find kinda funny

anyway still think what to call this maybe UKAI

[sashayed]

[persianpenname]

so I recently picked back up my wheat and flowers shawl, which I realize now I never posted about on tumblr (or if I did I can't find the posts about it), and yall this bitch

so this shawl is an amalgam of bullshit, right? like the center is a big fuckoff square knit back and forth and based on shetland lace patterns (I think it's called The Twins, but I went for it because it looks like honeycomb) and some estonian patterns I kludged together into a bee shape, then picked up all the sides and knit out from the center from there, right?

and then from there it transitions into a pretty standard mesh of brick-stacked [\OO/] shapes, with the double yarn over getting knit then purled so you do get four stitches to work with out of each four stitches you used on the previous row

and THEN, what EMERGES from that mesh is inward-pointing sheaves of wheat and bunches of flowers, so that by the time that border is finished (currently it is NOT), the end of the border is the "ground" from which the wheat and flowers are growing. These are all various Niebling bits I stole or adapted into the shapes that I want, from a ton of magazines from like. I dunno, the 40s I think?

(then I gotta figure out another small border and an edging, but that's for Later PPN, and not my current problem)

so, right now, I'm at about here in my progress diagram:

just about finishing up the lower sheaves of wheat, soon to be starting on the flowers in the corners, about half done with the shawl as a whole if you count the theoretical next border and edging, right?

and it is

SO HARD

to figure out where I was and what I was doing on this FUCKING chart that I WROTE because I HAD a paper pattern that I took notes on when what I thought was gonna happen needed to change, and I CAN'T FIND IT ANYMORE

so NOW I'm trying to RECREATE that chart, based on the excel file version of the original chart, using stitchmaps, and it's...

Not Going Great, Yall

been commiserating with a friend and

anyway this is my life for the forseeable future, or at least for the rest of the afternoon

[persianpenname]

Getting there!!!

(this is why I love stitch maps, it helps me read my knitting and figure out where shit's going)

[owlspinningyarns]

so is this one of the wheat motifs? that is fascinating, i may need to look at stitch maps. would you share what estonian patterns you used for bees?

[persianpenname]

oh sure, let me find it!

the big V is a nupp, I waaaaaaanna say like 5 or 7 stitch nupp??? but it's been literal years since I did that part and I don't recall

makes one of these, though!

[owlspinningyarns]

that is adorable and so very awesome. i enjoy knitting nupps, i think they're fun. now i need more books on estonian lace...

[persianpenname]

I'm pretty sure the one I used while wrangling this thing was Knitted Lace of Estonia by Nancy Bush, if that helps any! and for the shetland stuff, Heirloom Knitting by Sharon Miller, and the Nieblings were various issues of I wanna say Burda magazine?

[owlspinningyarns]

thank you! i have both Knitted Lace of Estonia and Heirloom Knitting so will have to dig those out and play around a bit. my Niebling library is lacking though. guess i'll add those to the textile book wishlist. i swear for every book i buy i add like three more....

[loudlysilenced]

The death in the family

[artschoolglasses]

Rare White Cotton Sporting Petticoat, English, 1810

From Kerry Taylor Auctions

[moldspace]

well i'm back from the redwoods for the summer, and shooting for a couple of shop updates this season. and the first shop update of the summer is gonna be NEXT FRIDAY!!! june 12th at 6:00 PM mountian time!!!!!

it’ll be some of the leftover pieces I’ve had sitting around from winter break, and also a handful of the new weird pieces I’ve been making during the school year at the cone 10 studio out in cali >:^) some of which i've already started posting up here

i'll get listing previews up in the shop in the next week, but for now you can mark your calendars and hopefully take these guys off my hands so i can go make more guys!!!

[claypigeonpottery]

gannets diving for fish. I’m hoping the colours won’t be streaky, it’s just so hard to tell at this stage 😒

[claypigeonpottery]

sold

the streaks follow the water flow 🥹 I am so pleased with the colour and the way the water slightly obscures the fish and gannets.

(and here’s the inside)

[blab-felt]

Pearl is a needle felted soft sculpture made using natural white and grey Himalayan wool sourced from Dunda Village, Harsil Valley in Uttarakhand, India and dyed New Zealand Corriedale wool. Her eyes are glass and her feet and beak are wire wrapped with thread.

Pearl is based on Sky the Pigeon's likeness, but I like to think of her as one of Sky's chicks who hatched and is now a soon-to-be mother herself, multiplying her great species so they may soar the skies and find urban cliffs to perch upon. I love making these pigeys.

[labriatarpitz]

A Colorful Diorana Nudibranch showed off their voluptuous booty while crammed between the dock & a mussel, making lighting & angles challenging. But love the cerata giving major fractal vibes 🤩.

Santa Cruz, Ca

[chic-a-gigot]

Mr et Mme, 18 8bre 1908 [couple avec un chien près du parc des princes], Zulimo Chiesi (1849-1932). Photographe. Bibliothèque nationale de France

[herpsandbirds]

Hi folks! I am recruiting PhD students for my new lab housed within the Sam Noble Museum of Natural History at the University of Oklahoma. If you are interested in fish macroevolution, geometric morphometrics, specimen-based research & phylogenomics please reach out.

More info here: fishdiversitylab.weebly.com

Please share widely!!!

[omgthatdress]

The Yves St. Laurent F/W 2000-2001 show was essentially Yves St. Laurent calling Tom Ford a bitch and saying, "You will never be me." It was one of his best collections, fuelled entirely by spite and I am HERE FOR IT.