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[hexjulia]

this was in my drafts from 2023 and well i was right. these outfits would fuck. i need to make similar items because these are, of course, unattainable. also it's fun to make things. And the upper one needs some idea for the bottom part I guess.

[hexjulia]

i need to try this 👀

[hexjulia]

I love William de Morgan's pottery but hadn't looked at his studies/drawings before, and i think doing so is just making me appreciate his ceramics more. it's always encouraging to see the amount of thought and attempts that go into even small details (you shouldn't be discouraged too easily or expect to get a finished design for anything nice to be ready quickly! most of the time it's a long process with many steps) but they're also just really nice fluid lines + very expressive.

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[hexjulia]

my garden is overgrowing with these and i was just going to compost them and make antifungal juice to spray on other plants but maybe not. some of these results look really fun

PLANT DYES | Infertile Horsetail (Equisetum arvense)

Natural dyeing with the Horsetail plant. Sunshine yellow, woody browns and mossy greens…oh my! What a wonderful use for this prolific WEED!

that's a beautiful yellow!

[hexjulia]

this is one of the best types of youtube videos imo. she just welded an old singer sewing machine to make it into a longarm lmao

'This note is intended to supplement the YouTube video and blog posts of Ms Anne Marie Sullivan.  She wanted a long arm, and did not let her lack of knowledge in mechanics or welding stop her.'

amscreats-a blog about how to make quilt tops, how to quilt,how to make other quilted items, how I made a stitched long arm quilting machine

[hexjulia]

tbqh it sounds very doable if laborous

to cut the shell: nippers, file, fretsaw

dyeing by boiling with various colorants (one of which was Gold(III)chloride but i think a lot of easier to obtain substances should dye shell as well tbqh. lots of dyes for sale also these days)

polishing with corks dipped in oil and emery powder, then with putty powders, oil and whiting, oil and rouge powder (i think modern fine sandpapers could be used instead of emery powder. emery is used in those anyway. whiting is simply finely ground chalk! it's not clear to me why he's using rouge powder; does he even mean pigment? probably not. anyway.)

canvas, frame, gesso (thick)

gum, glue (which glue? unclear)

french polish - self explanatory.

gold leaf or platinum leaf for cooler colours over the entire gesso surface

painting with transparent oil OVER the gold leaf, leaving the outlines goldcolored so it resembles stained glass

the most expensive part of this process is the gold leaf, but that's in part because he used so much of it + painted over it to create a golden shine beneath transparent oil.

[hexjulia]

wait seeing them isolation like that made me think... it would be so cute to put those Serafini drawings on a shirt. embroidery or printing either would work i think. what would be even cuter would be a codex serafini plant bag! i think it would only really work if you put in a lot of work.

one of these as a bag... do you see my vision

[hexjulia]

Extraction of organic dyes. Counterclockwise from top: a soaking raw plant and insect materials; b vacuum filtration of amur cork tree; c extracted organic dyes before concentrating by evaporation

(PDF) Creation and reference characterization of Edo period Japanese woodblock printing ink colorant samples using multimodal imaging and re

PDF | Abstract The Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division holds a large collection of Edo period (1615–1868) nishiki-e, Japanes