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[alongtimealone2]

Akio Takamori (1950-2017)Stoneware Landscapes and Mountains, c. 2015

[ancientorigins]

Bird Nesting At The Temple Of Horus, Egypt.

[cosmicanger]

Laura Moore, EDI, 2023, Second-hand clothes, recycled fabric, and 100% cotton, 51 x 53 inches

[ringneckedpheasant]

watercolors by trans artist tuesday smilie

[huntersinthesnow]

Forest Lake by Victor Zaretsky, 1986

[tcmreads]

reading in bed. painting by marta astrain.

[psikonauti]

Rae Klein (American,b.1995)

White Dog and Gems, 2019

[thisquietdust]

This small carving of a water bird was created 33,000 years ago. Sculpted in mammoth ivory, it was found in the Hohle Fels cave in Germany in 2002 and it's the earliest known representation of a bird.

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[artifacts-and-arthropods]

2,300-Year-Old Plush Bird from the Altai Mountains of Siberia (c.400-300 BCE): this artifact was crafted with a felt body and reindeer-fur stuffing, all of which remains intact

This stuffed bird was sealed in the frozen barrows of Pazyryk, Siberia, for more than two millennia, where a unique microclimate enabled it to be preserved. The permafrost ice lense formation that sits just beneath the barrows provides an insulating layer, preventing the soil from heating during the summer and allowing it to quickly freeze during the winter; these conditions produce a separate microclimate within the stone walls of the barrows themselves, thereby aiding in preservation.

This is just one of the many well-preserved artifacts that have been found at Pazyryk. These artifacts are attributed to the Scythian/Altaic cultures.

[cenneidi]

Source:

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And a similar artifact from the same collection:

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Found: Pazyryk Barrow No. 5 (excavations by S.I. Rudenko, 1949). Altai Territory, Pazyryk Boundary, the Valley of the River Bolshoy Ulagan.

The body of the swan, filled with reindeer wool, is made of white felt, while the bill, cere and eye of black felt. The feet made from felt of a reddish-brown colour are stretched over wooden stakes that support the figure in a vertical position. The swan was probably fixed on the wooden top of a chariot or decorated the top of a funeral tent. The representation of birds was rarely used by ancient Altaic people. A swan symbolized life in three spheres of the universe - in air, on earth and in water. There was also a widespread concept of the creation of the universe by a swan, duck or goose, which was characteristic of many cosmogonical conceptions in ancient times.

Credit to SixteenSeveredHands on Reddit for locating the source. Check out their post for further information!

r/interestingasfuck - Comment by u/SixteenSeveredHands on ”2,300-year-old Plush Bird Made of Felt and Reindeer Wool, from Siberia, 400-300 B

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[maxfosterstudio]

[PRINT] Bread tags (I’m an avid collector) used in my screen printing final - yes these are to scale! 🍞

[ryebreadgf]

ellen thesleff (finnish, 1869 - 1954)

[polkadotmotmot]

Danielle Winger - The rainbow never tells me, 2022

[taylornprice]

tulips !

[huariqueje]

Blackbirds   -   Jesse Dayan , 2016.

Australian, b.  1982  -

Oil on linen, 40 × 30 in.

[banji-effect]

The ancient world was full of textile masterpieces we can only imagine… but most of them have rotted away. So few of them have come down to us in these days that we think of metal and stone as the primary mediums for the oldest artworks. But there were tapestries and fabric work that would have rivaled the finest wrought gold and iron and the first cave paintings.

[theyoungwaldschrat]

This is a incredibly rare find. A ball of yarn made from stinging nettle fibers in the Late Neolithic (5900 years old) in what’s now Marin-Epagnier in Switzerland. The thread has been preserved by being carbonized. Look at how much thread that is! And how fine and even it is spun! The skill going into this is absolutely incredible. Imagine the incredible textile work that must’ve been made with that. For a reference here’s a ball of nettle yarn I managed to make with a drop spindle. That took me 300 hours of work.

[littleyellowleaves]

For Emily and Lucia, who travel together.

[60smobwife]

something so sweet and heartwarming about 80s the new yorker cover art