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Dress
c.1881
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White cotton dress with green beetle wing embroidery, 1868-1869, British.
Victoria and Albert Museum.
Dress of cotton muslin, gilded metal thread and Indian jewel beetles (s<i>ternocera aeqisignata</i>), Britain, 1868-9
A WIP for my sewing class this semester.
You could call this Worm fanembroidery.
IMAGE ID: A photo of gold work and beetle wing embroidery on the back of a jacket. The gold wires form the shape of the Khepri symbol and the emblem is surrounded by a circle of Jewel beetle wings pointing out. The fabric is naturally dyed grey. END ID.
An iridescent beetle wing casing (above).
PHOTOGRAPHS BY NIKOLA RAHMÉ
A dazzling, multicolored cuticle (below)
The shiny chitinous armor of this pseudoscorpion, known unsurprisingly as scissorhands, hides a tiny insectivore. This animal appears frightening, but unlike true scorpions, its stinger is not poisonous.
To the naked eye, this green immigrant leaf weevil appears to have a green cuticle. A closer look reveals that dense, chitinous scales give it color.
Some more new earrings. Link in bio if you want one of the top three pairs, or message me if you want one of the others or a custom pair.
Requests and Comissions open!
Also! I’ll be making a raffle for the next weeks! There will be 3 gem adoptables each week! If you want to participate just reblog tagging me and two other friends saying which gem would you like to adopt! There will be 3 winners and The 3 gems for this week are:
Workers!
Crimson Calcite: A cuddler therapist, her gem is on her chest.
Beetle Wing: An usher, she proclaims the arrivance of any member of a court, her gem is on her chin.
And Atacamite: Rubie’s tutors and coaches, her gem is on her eye.
See you in the results next monday!
I made this a while ago for a thing. More gems where supposed to be in but it just never happened. I would finish it but I have to finish some stuff first.
Maybe I could make it with more people's gems too. Someday.
Crochet appears to be result oriented, that is, all about the finished product. But for me, it's all about the experience, the meditative aspect of the repetitive task, the color, texture, and even smell of the yarn, and the way my mind stretches and grows when I make my own design.
So, ripping out partial or whole projects is just part of the process!
I also think that having a results oriented approach to crochet (or anything else!) sets us up for disappointment and failure. You can never improve if you are focused only on the results, because you'll abandon a project rather than work on it.
There's a story I heard about a jazz musician that after receiving applause and accolades from an audience responded by saying "Thanks! You should have heard what I tried to play!"
Nothing original I make is ever as I first imagined it. Sometimes, they come out better, other times worse, but always different than what I planned. If I was focused one the result I would only be disappointed with the result, but with an experiential approach, it makes it so much more fun.