#chatelaines

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Virginia Coffman - Castle at Witches Coven - Piatkus - 1966

[costasiellidaecasual]

Looking to find inspo for carabiners or just like to see what other people are wearing? Want to show off your carabiner (which is obviously the coolest one on earth)?

Come join my carabiner inspo community!

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A community dedicated to inspo pics for carabiners! This is a queer space, be respectful or be banned.

Ive got it set up and im gonna be posting there fairly regularly so stay tuned!

[draculasdaughter]

Like a customized Swiss Army knife, a chatelaine provided its wearer with exactly the tools she needed closest at hand. For an avid seamstress, that might include a needle case, thimble, and tape measure, while for an active nurse it might mean a thermometer and safety pins. Inspired by the complex key rings carried by “la chatelaine,” the female head of a grand French estate, these beautiful, little contraptions were as fashionable as they were practical. In fact, their design was sometimes so trendy that style trumped usefulness.

Top: From left to right, this elaborate Art Nouveau needlework set includes a tape measure, strawberry-shaped emery for sharpening needles, needle book containing flannel pages to hold needles, scissors in scabbard, acorn-shaped vinaigrette, thimble holder, and heart-shaped pinwheel. Above: This tintype captures a woman wearing a chatelaine similar to the Tiffany piece at right, circa 1870s, which includes a combination perfume bottle and vinaigrette, left, and notebook with pencil.

Left, this “Faith, Hope, and Charity” chatelaine may have been a mourning piece, as it contained a romantic quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Right, two sporting-themed chatelaines featuring dog’s head medallions.

Left, a variety of chatelaines designed to carry spectacles. Right, this cabinet card image, circa 1885, shows a nurse in uniform wearing a long chatelaine with a pinwheel and scissors. In her hand she holds a watch, which hangs from her neck on a black ribbon guard chain.

Left, this chatelaine is made from intaglio seals ending with a key and agate-cameo locket. Right, the chatelaine as it would have been worn on a period dress.

— Hunter Oatman-Stanford, The Killer Mobile Device for Victorian Women, 2013.

[honourablejester]

And one more random magic item, because chatelaines are the coolest things (no really, look them up):

DOORKEEPER’S CHATELAINE

Wonderous Item, Rare (requires attunement)

This beautiful silver chatelaine bears a two-faced profile of indistinct gender and clips onto a belt. Hanging from the chatelaine on silver chains are a collection of items including a small hand-mirror, a set of delicate scissors in a silver case, a small pearl-handled letter opener, a set of silvered steel tongs, a slender wooden tube chased in silver, and a tiny silver key.

Once attuned, the chains and objects make no noise, even while running. The wooden tube contains a set of steel lock picks, and the chatelaine’s items function as a set of thieves’ tools if required. The chatelaine also has the following properties:

While attuned to the chatelaine, you can cast the mage hand and message cantrips at will.

The chatelaine has 3 charges. As an action, while wearing the chatelaine, you can expend a charge to cast one of the following spells: arcane lock or knock. The chatelaine regains 1d3 expended charges daily at dawn.

[soleils-stitches]

chatelaines...carabiners....butch/femme couple.....

[chatelainesrule]

Ukrainian Viking Bronze Amulets, c. 800-1000 AD

[jomiddlemarch]

A Mansion House Murder moodboard...

[joannalannister]

Chatelaines

Like a customized Swiss Army knife, a chatelaine provided its wearer with exactly the tools she needed closest at hand. For an avid seamstress, that might include a needle case, thimble, and tape measure, while for an active nurse it might mean a thermometer and safety pins. Inspired by the complex key rings carried by “la chatelaine,” the female head of a grand French estate, these beautiful, little contraptions were as fashionable as they were practical. In fact, their design was sometimes so trendy that style trumped usefulness.

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