#clove-pinks

[ganymedian]

Commission of Frank Mildmay for @clove-pinks !!! Thank youuuu

[1812]

@clove-pinks

[nordleuchten]

Tag Game

I had very much hoped to be tagged in this - so thank you for the tag @clove-pinks.

Rules: post 4 pieces of art you like and make a poll so that people can vote for their favourite, then tag 4 friends to do the same.

Pick a Favourite Piece of Art!

The Lady with the Veil - Alexander Roslin

De Sterrennacht - Vincent van Gogh

Cave art in the Pettakere Cave

The Fighting Termeraire - J. M. W. Turner

Voting ended onJul 16, 2024

Tagging @ouiouixmonami, @theancientvaleofsoulmaking, @aedesluminis and @meerawrites and anyone else who would like to join in.

[kaxen]

@clove-pinks replied to your post “”:

FOR REAL I am wondering what it is the French specifically think is "blond" hair. Théophile Gautier described Gavarni as, "un beau jeune homme orné d'une abondante chevelure blonde aux boucles frisées et touffues." (???)

Yeah that baffles me. Like IDK if it's skewed by black and white drawings but it's like.... Gavarni seems pretty dark haired.

I also desire to study the person who picked "none of these men are blond" and the person who picked "all of these men are blond"

I'm gonna have to make another blond poll.

I need to figure out where the line is like that study on if zebra finches can tell orange from red.

Which one is the darkest shade that still counts as blond?

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Voting ended onMay 14, 2023

[littleastrobleme]

Has your museum done any clothing conservation work? Of the historic garments and textiles you have handled, which one is your personal fave?

Thank you for the ask, yay!! This is gonna be long-winded because I'd like to give a good answer to a good ask!

I work at a new(ish) job at a university where I mostly do research, but when I was at the museum (a small decorative arts museum in a sort of historic/museum district in my hometown), how to properly store and conserve the garments in our collection was one of the most pressing questions we discussed. The frustrating thing about garment/textile storage and conservation is that it requires

A. Space and

B. Big moneys

Neither of which the small museum had. Amazingly, for having been in closets on shelves or in cardboard boxes in a basement for decades, most of the garments (which were predominantly mid-late 19th century dresses that had been bought in the 50s or 60s) were in great shape! However, the few that had been munched on by mousies had really been munched on, so those guys would need a lot of help before going on display. The museum has some mid-19th century quilts and coverlets that are in great shape, so those dudes are safe for display and are much-admired.

The museum is currently undertaking a massive refurbishment project, as it is housed in a late-19th century residence that has never had proper repairs, so all of the gowns and a few orphaned bodices are currently wrapped in archival tissue and squirreled away in historic furniture throughout the museum. We had an artist-in-residence who wanted to hang the dresses from the ceiling (I threw a polite FIT) and our director wanted her tween daughter to model the dresses (I threw a slightly politer FIT), but such as it is, how to best conserve and display the garments is still a matter of ongoing discussion.

In response to your second query...

It is so hard to say which garments were my favorite! Since I've spent several years now in the icy trenches of Franklin Expedition research for my thesis, garments from the 1840s-50s were really neat to handle because they were created in my time period of study and made me feel connected to that era.

(The information attached to this dress, meanwhile, stated that it was worn by a teenage girl and was made around 1802, so it was probably still at least mildly in style when Erebus and Terror were built!)

But my very favorite was an 1880s winter walking dress. The 1880s is my favorite decade of 19th century fashion, so it was really delightful to see how lightweight and cozy a velvet dress from that era actually was.

(There seem to be some vaguely 18th-century inspirations in the trims!)

Hopefully in the future, once they get the repairs squared away, the museum will be able to dedicate more space to proper garment storage (probably flat in big archival boxes, supported with tissue, kept away from any erstwhile mice!) and hopefully display some of the garments that are in good shape. They are so beautiful and enchanting and they deserve to be seen!

Thanks so much for the ask!

[zeehasablog]

Thank you for the Tip @clove-pinks!!! 🥰💚😘😘😘 HAPPY MIWACKULOUS TYE MONDAY

beautiful gentleman with whiskers, wearing a beautiful patterned tie, 1850s - eBay (wish I could afford this!)

[sanguinarysanguinity]

Assuming that you have unlimited money—which can only be used to purchase swords and sidearms and the like—what does your dream armoury look like?

This is a great question, and I've had a great time thinking about it, thank you!

I admit to coveting a Lloyd's Patriotic Fund sword -- they're so pretty, and I'm attached to the history behind them. And of course I'd add an 18th-century basket-hilted Scottish broadsword -- actually, I hear tell there were all sorts of variations of Scottish hilts being set to French blades commissioned by the Jacobite exile community in France, replacing lost, broken, or pawned weapons, and it would be cool to have examples of that.

That said, I have a pronounced preference for weapons I know how to use. A weapon should feel like an extension of your arm, and when it doesn't, it's so sad. I'm currently taking saber/cutlass lessons, so an antique Royal Navy cutlass would be lovely -- along with a decent blunted replica that I could beat up without reserve! (Can some of these funds be diverted into the time for weapons training, so I could properly enjoy these blades? I hope so!)

But my real passion is knives. There are so many cool knife designs from so many cultures! Optimized for so many functions! (Including ceremonial functions!) I of course want all the kinds of knives wielded by my blorbos, plus all the various clever blades I've coveted over the decades. I'm not, however, much into fantasy blades, even though there's a popular market for those -- I vastly prefer knife designs that were actually used by a specific people for a specific purpose.

As far as antiques vs. replicas go, I'm ambivalent. I have complicated feelings about some of the conflicts various historic weapons were used in and the fetishization of artifacts thereof; I also have complicated feelings about who gets to own rare historical artifacts, especially from a people's own cultural history. Accordingly, if I truly did have unlimited funds to spend on this, I would enjoy being able to buy museum-quality pieces that museums are unable to afford, and then put them out on permanent loan to those institutions. (Or, if the terms of my fantasy funds permit it, donating said items to the relevant institutions outright -- whichever makes better sense for the history being available to researchers and the public.) Also, you can't play with antiques like you can with replicas! So likely I'd have a decent mix of both in the collection.

And then, just for kicks, a solar-actuated signal cannon that fires at noon every day. Just because I can. :D

[kaxenart]

For the character fanart: Louis-François Lejeune (if he hasn't been suggested already), and Parzival.

Is it fanart if it's my son?

Unclear how Brutus has saved Parz's life, but Parz does ride better with a horse with enough opinions to stop him from jumping off a cliff.

Parz: I'm sure it's fine.

Brutus: NOPE.

*bridge suddenly collapses in a stiff breeze*

Parz: Ah, you were right, old chap.