VTbks

reading, selling and collecting books,    books,   gardening, scenery,                 weaving:   https://www.etsy.com/shop/VTcraft                    VTweave on Tumblr

[life-on-our-planet]

A leucistic moose filmed by municipal councilmember Hans Nilsson in the Värmland region of Sweden (2017) National Geographic

[visual-poetry]

“thumbprint portrait” by cheryl sorg

(have a look at her etsy shop)

[tutta-mia]

houseandgardenuk | Provence

[mybeingthere]

Small hand-woven, hand-stitched, hand-embroidered child’s apron, Miao, 1940s.Just a little while ago every mother in Yunnan was making all the clothes for the family. The amount of care put into tiny pieces is amazing. Great artistic talents surfaced. When you see their work - you just knew it is fabulous.

[little-witchys-garden]

[loftyangel]

sakuradapyon

[lionfloss]

Puffins on a cliff, Fratercula arctica, Shetland Islands, Scotland

[sosuperawesome]

Embroidered Backpack // Stitch and Wander

[thebeautifulbook]

NANCY’S AVONTUREN [aka NANCY’S ADVENTURES] by (Amsterdam: Kleuter-Boekjes, ) Illustrated by Freddie Langeler (1897-1953). Cover design by Jan Wiegman

Johanna Frederika (Freddie) Langeler was a self-taught Dutch impressionist and modern painter known for her children’s books illustrations.

[thebeautifulbook]

THE ART OF CARL FABERGE by A. Kenneth Snowman. (London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1953). Art binding by Sangorski and Sutcliffe.

Color frontispiece and 26 color plates, monochrome illustrations throughout. Contemporary green morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, the upper cover mounted with a mid-Victorian malachite-mounted gilt bronze plaque, with a central malachite boss raise on chased pierced foliage. Green moiré silk doublures, gilt edges, the spine lettered in gilt.

Auctioned in 2012 by Christie’s.

[empirearchives]

Copy of the Goods of Montpellier

France, c. 1810

Napoleonic era

This book illustrates the huge variety of intricate patterns printed in vivid colors on cotton textiles for fashion during the early 19th century. The book comes from Montpellier, a town on the southern coast of France that is not known today as a center of textile printing. Thus these samples indicate how much more widespread the textile industry was in Europe during the Industrial Revolution. This book contains more than 2,300 small samples.

Source: Art Institute of Chicago

[fluffygif]

Feeling, emotion and satisfaction

[handweavers]

haven't posted new textile related stuff in a while but i've been learning how to design my own punch cards for use with a domestic knitting machine. this design is adapted from/inspired by a traditional icelandic weaving pattern to be more suitable for knit structure and representative of xanthoria spp. lichen found across iceland.

every hole on the punch card had to be punched by hand before i could feed it through the machine for knitting. feels super cool to be essentially operating an (analog) computer using binary code - blanks and holes - to create this design. made a few mistakes in the knitting/this is just a sample, but i'm super proud of myself :-)

[c-o-l-o-r-e-s-m-a-g-i-c-o-s]

[reading-books-in-the-moonlight]

[triflingthing]

Small pleasures

[nobrashfestivity]

Ogawa Kazumasa, Hand-Coloured Photographs, 1896

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