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romanceyourdemons

sewing affirmations

it’s okay that i don’t have a sewing machine

i love backstitching by hand for hours

this has got to be great for my back

millions of my ancestors did this and they lived almost as long as i want to

i’m making so many beautiful things for my house—oh goddamn it

#LMAOO

maureen2musings

Early morning visitors

osugisan108

parisartyparisexy

"Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises." - Pedro Calderon de la Barca

uncleclaudius

Decorative antefixes of Etruscan origin, which were originally placed at the edges of the roofs.

mybrainispermanentlyfried

scrolling through #archaeology and thought "hey this looks familiar". turns out i just saw one of these!

ancient-rome-au

Clothing in antiquity functioned as an immediately legible social code, a woven system of signs in which the appearance of a garment, the na

There was such a thing as "counterfeit" Tyrian purple. Incredible.

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

current state of the internet is a FUCKING EMBARASSMENT. was chatting with my grandma bout the history of crochet and knitting (and the comparative ages of those respective technologies) and i was like "oh YEAH and also that ancient greek fiber art we partly figured out from chemically testing the scoured bleached pigments of stolen statuary (tumblr knows what im talking about)—gimme 30 seconds to look up the name."

5 minutes and 3 search-engines later i am crying tears of blood screaming spitting blubbering in despair as my grandma attempts to digitally pat me consolingly on the back. the library of alexandria didn't burn it was "restructured" to "increase shareholder profits"

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

and i STILL CANNOT FIND THE TERM.

i am scouring the internet like the victorians scoured and destroyed all trace of joy and color from stolen relics for the LOST NAME OF THE ANCIENT PROCESS of textile-creation akin to knitting/crocheting/nålebinding that at least one academic/crafter used to recreate the leggings on this Glorious Motherfucker:

the google execs erased it. they bleached my bestie AGAIN from history...

lachrymose-lyricist

is this of any use

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

SO IT IS!!!

Archer statue from the Temple of Aphaia (ca. 480 BC) next to a reconstruction of its original paint job:

The leggings and sleeves would have created using a method called SPRANG which predates knitting and is over 3,000 years old. What's even sexier is modern artisans managed to recreate the entire outfit using the original method!

Mmm-HMM, love me a shapely thigh in harlequin hosiery. Put👏men👏in👏clingy-ass👏clothing👏again👏👏👏

Unfortunately english sources are hard to find, partly because Google's a shithole, but also because this textile project comes from a German museum, in Germany, where people tend to speak (and publish) in German. That said, the original link is to a short-but-sweet article I would have had no problem finding in 30 seconds a mere few years ago. fortunately i have clever beautiful insane people following me, but alas not everyone has such luxury. thanks to everyone in the notes who shoved themselves down this rabbithole with me!

in conclusion let us take a moment to sincerely wish Google a very burn in hell🙏

moddeydhoo

love me a shapely thigh in harlequin hosiery

bleedingthroughmyflesh

Amanda Young in the pit of joy and happiness

spiralinaa

a hungry vulture of the law

#its repo hours

acapelladitty

#fave ever

vamfiend

HAPPY BIRTHDAY REPO!!!

thedevilsdancers

this movie was sad

#need to rewatch possum immediately

normasshearer

CLASSIC HORROR ANTI-HEROINES & VILLAINESSES

Carol Ohmart as Annabelle Loren in HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL (1959) dir. William Castle

carefulzombie

the people of summerisle seem remarkably patient with this man loudly calling them some form of godless heathens every few minutes but that’s likely because they know they’re going to get to burn him alive later