Inquire for Reynardine

Just a few things that I find interesting. My BJD tumblr is arkham_bjd. I have a tumblr just for postcards! See mailboxedgems.

[reynardine]

[hall-0-ween]

[emilliasclarke-deactivated20140]

Twilight Movie Meme ★

Favorite Male Character

[reynardine]

Sibylla (Volks SDMidi F-18)

[ghostsandgoblins]

[joshua-wright]

This is actually a reworking of a pre-Slack Wyrm post I made to Tumblr about four years ago, so if you’ve been following me for a while, you might remember it. I just couldn’t resist adding the cockatrice into the Slack Wyrm world. I love him so much! :)

[rinianart]

The Fox’s Wedding 狐の嫁入り

Prints available here

[todayintokyo]

“Blue bird on a plum tree” by Ohara Koson (c. 1930s)

[acecroft]

[blindbee]

[avodaco]

me when i get my student loan

[g8dtier]

this is the money cat. reblog in 30 seconds and you will find yourself with more wealth

[strikercorbie]

#this is the only money cat i will reblog because it’s actually doing the manekineko pose151,646 notes (via lolwhutninja)

OMG YOU’RE RIGHT

[nonespark-blog]

and it has its right paw up! the correct paw for this. and from the markings on its ears, it looks like it might be a calico cat. which is the luckiest kind!

[carrionbeast]

extremely lucky cat

[ladynorbert]

I don’t even care if it actually works, I’m mostly reblogging because it’s freaking adorable.

[sweet-cherry-fairy-deactivated2]

cute cat and need money, good post, 10/10

[allthenamesilikearetaken]

in case anyones interested in the other versions

http://www.namaii.com/manekineko/maneki-neko-types.html

[mmusclechan]

Y’know I reblogged this a bit ago and was saved from financial probation and getting kicked out of school because of it, just mere months from graduation. Got a call from the financial aid advisor telling me that they made a mistake with filing my account (or some other sort of clerical error) and said that, basically, they owe me money. Welp.

[winjennster]

Last time I reblogged the money cat, I won two $100 gift cards at work.

[kaepop-oppa]

Damn.

[mmusclechan]

KITTY. YOU CAME BACK. AGAIN. YAYY.

[reynardine]

Money cat! Also, loving the chart about the various maneki-neko.

[purple-faerie]

Queen of Owls by Nene Thomas

[purple-faerie]

A Chance Encounter by Nene Thomas

[sumi-no-neko]

名取春仙 Shunsen Natori ( 1886 – 1960 ) Two cats playing, detail

[taishou-kun]

Ikenaga Yasunari 池永 康晟

Cat / Nishi-Waseda 3-chome 猫・西早稲田三丁目 - Japan - 2004

[pusheen]

[missmyloko]

What’s That Thing? Part 4

On The Sixth Day of Fun, I present… an interesting question sent in by a reader! When I say that I take your questions to heart I really mean it as they’re what keep this entire thing going. Please, don’t be afraid to ask questions as it’s how we all learn ^^! Anonymous asked: “Hi! I was wondering, would you mind explaining what tsujigahana is? I’ve tried to Google it but I still don’t quite understand how it differs from other dyeing techniques or how to recognize it on a kimono. Thanks and I hope you have a great new year!“ Tsujigahana (辻が花) is one of my favorite techniques, but I love the design motif too. Confused? Bear with me as we delve into the wonderful world of weaving! So, let’s go back, aaaaaaaall the way back (temporarily) to the Momoyama Period (1573-1615). Why then? Well, it gave birth to this:

Image courtesy of Kogirekai on Instagram.  Sure. it doesn’t look like much, but it’s hiding a beautiful secret: its (now faded) patterns and designs. Obviously fabric doesn’t hold up forever, but that we have any fragments is almost a miracle. This browned fabric was once covered in bright colors, but that’s not all. It also featured very fine shibori (tie dyeing) and even hand painted motifs underneath of all that. However, around the time of the Momoyama Period this group of techniques was lost (war tends to disrupt things), and it would remain that way until the 20th century. What happened then? Well, this guy:

Image courtesy of the Itchiku Kubota Archive. That’s Itchiku Kubota (久保田一竹), a man who was inspired by a fragment of fabric much like the one above. It was so intriguing that he made it his life’s work to revive the lost techniques of tsujigahana that he saw on that fabric. So, what did the revived tsujigahana entail? Well: -Step 1: Drawing The artist takes a brush and paints the desired pattern. The motif of tsujigahana came from the early Kubota designs that featured clusters of flowers with wisteria flowing down from them, hence “tsujigahana” meaning “trailing/flowing flowers.”   -Step 2: Threading The areas that would be dyed were small to say the least, with dyeing being done by threading off very small parts of the base fabric (almost always chirimen) until the parts where dye was not currently meant to be applied would be covered by thread. -Step 3: Shibori Dyeing Then, the garment would be very carefully dyed, usually only a few centimeters at a time to ensure that the chosen colors were correct. Sometimes sections would be dyed again in order to blend their colors, so this process for the same part would have to be repeated.  In the end, you have a one-of-a-kind garment that is incredibly laborious to produce. The average tsujigahana kimono takes months to produce, and it’s not at all uncommon for some to take more than a year or two.

Images courtesy of Maruman Kimono on Instagram. That’s what dyed tsujigahana looks like, but when we talk about tsujigahana as a motif we mean anything that looks like tsujigahana, but didn’t involve this dyeing process, such as this bag:

Image courtesy of Kyorin Kimono on Instagram. Since the embroidery was meant to look like tsujigahana it’s also called tsujigahana since it’s referring to its literal meaning rather than what it’s come to represent ^^ 

[boudhabar]

Tale of the Genji- As Told on a Fan