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🪡 Cete admirabilis formae… or what here at home we call the whale with a Futurama’s brain slug on top. 📚 The reference image for this sketch embroidery comes from “Exoticorum libri decem: quibus animalium, plantarum, aromatum, aliorumque peregrin. fructuum historiae describuntur” (1605) by Carolus Clusius or Charles de L’Écluse. 👨🏻🌾 Carolus Clusius was a doctor, mycologist, and pioneering botanist of the XVI century, one of the first scientists who provided scientific explanations of the plants and animals he talked about. Among his contributions, we can find the creation of Leiden’s Hortus Botanicus, one of the oldest botanical gardens in the world. He is considered one of the founders of horticulture. 🐳 Carolus Clusius hadn’t seen this whale himself. He included in his book the image and description made by father Ludovicus of Granada (1504-1588) in his Catechismo*️⃣. According to that, the whale was stranded on the beach of Peniche (Portugal?) and was dead when the description was made. It was a huge animal, so big that barely two large men could be seen standing on either side. Its eyes were one cubit long and its head measured four cubits high… I’m not sure of having translated the measurements well either though. 🧵 This embroidery is part of my personal project to translate to thread zoological illustrations of Sixteenth to Eighteenth-century. *️⃣ Take all this translation with a pinch of salt, as my Latin is rustier than a nail in a backyard. One of my purposes for this year is to refresh it to better understand the books I’m using for this embroidery project. #contemporaryembroidery #modernembroidery #threadsketching #handembroideryart #freestyleembroidery #freehandembroidery #threadpainting #needlepainting #embroiderersofinstagram #embroideryartist #handstitch #tinystitches #naturalhistory #whale #slowlife #zoologyillustration #zoologicalliterature #animalillustration #animalembroidery #seamonster #nerdembroidery #engravingstyle #futurama #brainslug https://www.instagram.com/p/CZHidtFq0bO/?utm_medium=tumblr
Bishop Fish. 🪡Sketch embroidery of Rondelet’s ‘De pisce Episcopi habitu’ or the fish in a bishop’s habit, from his “Libri de piscibus marinis in quibus ver piscium effigies express sunt” (1554). 📚 Guillaume Rondelet (1507-1566) is considered the grandfather of ichthyology and his work had been studied and admired for centuries. According to Rondelet, the Bishop Fish habitated the Baltic Sea, where it had been caught and brought to Sigismund I the Old, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania. Aparently, the fish expressed its wish to be returned to the sea and his wish was granted. 🤷🏻♀️ 🎏 Although Rondelet included the Bishop Fish in his book, it has a really short description that shows his skepticism about it, as in this case it was a second-hand description and he hadn’t seen the specimen himself. He ends its short description with “Vera ca fit an non, nec affirmo nec refello”: “Whether it is true or not, I neither affirm nor refute”. 🧵This embroidery is part of my personal project to translate to thread zoological illustrations of Sixteenth to Eighteenth-century. #contemporaryembroidery #modernembroidery #threadsketching #handembroideryart #freestyleembroidery #freehandembroidery #threadpainting #needlepainting #embroiderersofinstagram #embroideryartist #handstitch #tinystitches #naturalhistory #orca #slowlife #zoologyillustration #zoologicalliterature #animalillustration #animalembroidery #seamonster #nerdembroidery #engravingstyle https://www.instagram.com/stolenfromthemuses/p/CYhHF_xI3k4/?utm_medium=tumblr
Brace yourselves, for a new niche of nerdiness has entered my life on the first day of 2022 and you will suffer the consequences! Drumroll…: Sixteenth to Eighteenth-century zoology books and their illustrations. I dived down the rabbit hole and nobody and nothing can stop me now! Don’t try to help me because it’s tremendously bizarre and I LOVE IT!!! What a delicious fantasy! It all started with my embroidery of a Dodo based on Willem Piso’s ‘De Indiae Utriusque Re Naturali et Medica libri quatuordecim’ (1658) engravings. I was just looking for image references of a dodo… and this book captivated me, and I needed more. Doing my research, two days ago I read a fabulous book about the first nature illustrators where I discovered several more authors. First zoologists tried to be scientific and accurate, but working with third-hand descriptions, dead specimens, and seasoning the lack of data with their artistry and imagination, sometimes they ended with fascinating creatures that would delight any wizardry book lover. As an introvert nerd that suddenly discovers a new feed of knowledge, I need to explore this field further and it may be my only conversation topic in a while. And as my medium and personal interest right now is thread sketching, I have put on the table a new challenge for myself this year, and it is to translate to thread these wonders and share them with you. As in my previous posts, this embroidery is a direct thread on fabric sketch without previous drawing or reference lines in the hoop, so it isn’t an exact copy of Guillaume Rondelet’s “Libri de piscibus marinis in quibus ver piscium effigies express sunt” (1554) Orca, but it’s pretty close. Rondelet is considered the grandfather of ichthyology and his work (in most cases the first-hand observation of living animals and specimens that he dissected himself) had been studied and admired for centuries. Even though, he also illustrated several “fascinating creatures” which he had not personally seen and that I will have to share with you soon. Fasten your seatbelts because we have not been prepared for what has to come. #contemporaryembroidery #threadsketching #freestyleembroidery https://www.instagram.com/p/CYZYP5iIdeL/?utm_medium=tumblr
The anteater. 🐜 📚 Willem Piso’s ‘De Indiae Utriusque Re Naturali et Medica libri quatuordecim’ (1658) engravings are a delightful source of references for thread sketching! 🪡 This anteater is my second embroidery this year, again a direct thread on fabric sketch without previous drawing or reference lines in the hoop. 🧵 I feel like I am getting more confident with my stitches thanks to this kind of warming up embroidery. #contemporaryembroidery #modernembroidery #threadsketching #handembroideryart #freestyleembroidery #freehandembroidery #threadpainting #needlepainting #embroiderersofinstagram #embroideryartist #handstitch #tinystitches #naturalhistory #anteater #plantlover #slowlife https://www.instagram.com/p/CYRZA70Ihiv/?utm_medium=tumblr
🦤The Dodo. 🪡 First embroidery of 2022 is a thread sketching, direct thread on fabric without previous drawing or reference lines in the hoop. 🦤For thread sketching this hoop I took as reference Willem Piso’s engraving of a Dronte (Dodo) from 'De Indiae Utriusque Re Naturali et Medica libri quatuordecim’ (1658). A digital copy of the book is available at @wellcomecollection , a natural and scientific museum in London that pleasantly surprised me when I visited it several years ago. #contemporaryembroidery #modernembroidery #threadsketching #handembroideryart #freestyleembroidery #freehandembroidery #threadpainting #needlepainting #embroiderersofinstagram #embroideryartist #handstitch #tinystitches #naturalhistory #naturalhistoryillustration #dodo #extinctfauna #plantlover #slowlife https://www.instagram.com/stolenfromthemuses/p/CYOsR3lo9zT/?utm_medium=tumblr
