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We love this playful piece of rainbow yarbombing, entitled Splash, created by Stockholm-based street artist Julia Riordan.
Follow her on Instagram to check out more of her colorful textile art as well as her own line of knitware.
[via Colossal]
These skeins are related.
The top one is “Joanie.,” named for a friend who died very suddenly. She was as bright and warm and colorful as the yarn is. That will go into the shop later this week…
For now, the two below Joanie are in the shop. They’re a bit bolder version of Joanie. They’ve got a bit of a punch to them so I’m calling them “Novel.” Joanie was a oft-published writer of short stories. She was also a grandmother and former law librarian - read researcher and manager extraordinaire. She was a wife, mother, care-giver and an exceptional friend. No one has been able to think of anything Joan couldn’t do well. She was the best sort of human being.
You can buy Novel now, or you can order it on any other colorway. Later this week you’ll be able to buy Joanie, too.
Joan, these colorways aren’t nearly as brilliant as you were, but they’re the best I’ve got to say I wish you were still here.
gnarledpaw
(vía Editor’s Choice: Ribbon Weed blanket knitting pattern • LoveKnitting Blog)
Pretty sure this is the pattern someone I know was looking for last week but only managed to find a similar thing.
Crochet cover for mobile / Smartphone Tapestry crochet sleeve
A free pattern with chart via the blog Not 2 Late to Craft. You can translate the page to a bunch of different languages. Nice job!
By Danielle Clough.
Costume. Chitons.
Marjorie & C. H. B.Quennell, Everyday Things in Archaic Greece (London: B. T. Batsford, 1931).
Wait, wait…. Is that seriously it? How their clothes go?
that genuinely is it
yeah hey whats up bout to put some fucking giant sheets on my body
When you’re carding, spinning and weaving everything from scratch, using the big squares exactly as they come off the loom must seem like a fucking brilliant idea. 90% (or more) of pre-14th century clothing is made purely on squares (and sometimes triangles cut from squares).
How did they get the fabric so fine it draped like that? Was that something medieval europe forgot? Or do I just have a completely misguided image of historical clothing?
Medieval Europe also had incredibly fine weaves, though the ancient world tended to have them beat. Linen was found in Egypt woven with a fineness that we’re still trying to replicate, and there was a kind of cotton woven in India called ‘woven wind’ that was supposedly still translucent at eight layers, and wool shawls so fine that the entire thing could be drawn through a wedding ring.
The way they could get away with pinking and slashing doublets in the 16th century was partially because the fabrics were so tightly woven that you could simply cut a line on the bias and nothing would fray.
Modern fabric machining sucks ass in terms of giving us any kind of quality like the kind human beings produced prior to the Industrial Revolution.
*yells about textile history*
cloth was kept in the treasury because it was that awesome and that expensive.
awhile back, there was an exhibition with copies made of tutankhamun’s wardrobe and here’s how they made those pieces.
“perfection in imperfection” ♦️ Our good friend @kamroozegar came in to pick some favorites this week #vintage #Malayer #rug
Shot by Candy Kennedy
RUTH ASAWA
(JAPÓN 1926 – SAN FRANCISCO 2013)
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Lore Leudesdorff-1923
Embroidered and needle-felted veggies by Little Herb Bouquet
I have been weaving a Danae handwoven lampshade lately. The repeated S shape is a characteristic of traditional Asproploumia weaves (I teach this in my weaving workshops). Canes are one of my favourite materials because they give sculptural qualities to the fabric and together with the S design they remind meanders and columns, forms and shapes of classical Greece.
Needle lace techniques
Art Under the Microscope: Threads
How exactly was the gilding of tapestries done in the 16th century? These microscopic images reveal all.
These images show the warp and weft threads used to create a background detail in the Triumph of Bacchus tapestry recently exhibited in “Woven Gold: Tapestries of Louis XIV.”
Viewed from a distance (like when the tapestry is hanging high up on a wall), the combo of the crimson silk with the gold threads looks like a bright copper, and here we can see all the separate colors and textures that build up that look.
Triumph of Bacchus, design overseen by Raphael, ca. 1518-19; design and cartoon by Giovanni da Udine. Brussels, workshop of Frans Geubels, ca 1560. Paris, Mobilier National, inv. GMTT 1/3. Image © Le Mobilier National. Photo by Lawrence Perquis
Art Under the Microscope is a series that features, well, art under the microscope, as photographed by our conservators to better study and preserve our collections.
