a sylvan witch all unseen

nic. 33. witch, scholar, poet, dreamer, and the rest. cleveland, oh, via nashville, tn.

[vagrats]

quilted wall-hanging i finally finished up! this is hand-painted with ferrous and alum based pastes, then i dyed the fabric with different natural pigments-- first pomegranate and then madder. the borders were initially dyed with japanese knotweed, then painted and overdyed with madder. the binding is osage modified with iron and the backing is wattle overdyed with madder and then modified with iron ^_^ this thing is like... maybe 24" tall but i dont feel like measuring it right now, oops

[esteticaslavonica]

Dress (Date: 1905-1910; Creator: Bela Čikoš-Sesija; Location: Zagreb, Croatia)

From the collection of The Museum of Arts and Crafts in Zagreb

[nobrashfestivity]

Gordon Parks, Helen Frankenthaler, 1956

[orpheuslament]

[geopsych]

Quiet seconds at the flower fields from another August

[1five1two]

'The Scissor Birds'. Jenny Barron.

[michaelnordeman]

Late afternoon walk. Värmland, Sweden (September 14, 2024).

[vanityunfair]

(via The Architect Remaking Santa Barbara, One Outrageously Fun House At a Time - Sight Unseen)

[expressions-of-nature]

Caddo Lake, Texas by Fred R Cox

[dailyclassicart]

Marcus Larson - "Norwegian Fjord in Moonlight. Motif from the Sogne-Fjord" (1861)

[popsicle-stick]

ÞÆS OFEREODE ÞISSES SWA MÆG

(that was overcome. so too may this.) from Deor, old english poem, c. 9th century.

new riso design! John Barleycorn is a folkloric figure considered the embodiment of the wheat harvest, and the subject of the English and Scottish folk song that describes the cyclical nature of his birth, death, and processing into bread and ale each year. this one was about the comfort in the constancy of things. the world could end. but the wheat field rises anew. the year turns around again.

[simaalsaig95]

Palestinian embroidery on wedding handkerchief. Front and back.

[smsomah]

Zuni Pueblo. Scanned from the book Insight Guides: Native America; 1993; photos by John Running & Monty Roessel

[expressions-of-nature]

by Ingrid Martinussen

[dykeselfcest]

recent epidemic of adaptations that take lots of liberties with the source material and also, separately, are bad. but then if you say "this is bad" you get hit with "you're just being a source material purist and you don't understand the vision"...like. well actually I think it rules when people do new and different things with classic works. I just think these particular new and different things suck ass.

[heathyr]

Most people I know had that one movie as a kid; that one movie that they would watch over and over and over to the resigned acceptance of their parents. I’ve always thought that movie says something about a person. What was your movie?

[judblanc]

he's such a tumblrina i can feel his presence in these halls