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just a gal librarian who cooks a lot, eats a lot, and makes friends with any cat she meets.

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Books aren’t always bound in leather or boring buckram– sometimes they strut their stuff in cloth and silk! This embroidered binding, designed by Yamaka Seiga, adorns a volume of Ayanishiki, a 1925 Japanese work that features facsimile images of ancient textiles. It is one of six volumes celebrating the history of textile manufacture in Kyoto, which has thrived in the area for over 1200 years. In this case, you really can judge a book by its cover! 

Learn more in our catalogue.

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• Mourning ring. Date: February 24, 1769  Place of origin: England Medium: Gold, ruby, ivory, enamel, hair, glass.

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The Blonds S/S 2013 Runway Details

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The danger of nostalgia is that it tends to confuse the actual home and the imaginary one. In extreme cases, it can create a phantom homeland, for the sake of which one is ready to die or kill. Unreflective nostalgia can breed monsters.

Svetlana Boym, from “Nostalgia and its Discontents” (via howtheheartbends)

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art deco tiles

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“Palazzo d’Inverno. Lo Stile. Ora” by Julia Hetta For IO Donna, 2013.

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Happy Birthday to master painter John Singer Sargent, born this day in 1856 in Florence!

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Men Have Made a Lot of Bad Art

Just the facts. Designed by Ambar del Moral for Women Artists.

http://womenartists.bigcartel.com