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looked a cool artist i found and instead of her actual art the first result google showed me was AI art made with her work. i hate it here!!!!!!!

remnantglow

well anyway. my discovery of the day is the art of Jeffrey Catherine Jones! she was a trans woman who painted a huge amount of fantasy & scifi cover art for books and magazines, among other things :)

yeoldegodzilla

Frescoes depicting the Biblical story of Godzilla eating the head of John the Baptist.

cuties-in-codices

medieval beds & sheets

collection of 15th c. manuscript illustrations

sources/links: Chantilly, Bibl. et Archives du Château, Ms. 388, fol. 8v // Paris, BnF, Français 96, fol. 17r // Paris, Bibl. Mazarine, Ms. 955, fol. 10v // Munich, BSB, Cgm 503, fol. 36v // Paris, BnF, Français 112 (1), fol. 244v // Frankfurt, UB, Ms. germ. qu. 12, fol. 50r // Paris, BnF, Français 119, fol. 398v // Karlsruhe, BLB, Cod. Donaueschingen 145, fol. 91r // Berlin, SBB, Ms. germ. fol. 1, fol. 86v // Munich, BSB, Cgm 8010a, fol. 22r // Genève, Bibl. de Genève, Ms. fr. 165, fol. 7r // St. Gallen, Kantonsbibl., VadSlg Ms. 343c, fol. 27r // Paris, BnF, Ms-5070 réserve, fol. 12v // Los Angeles, Getty Museum, Ms. 33, fol. 210r

roach-works

....i never thought about medieval folks having patterned blankets but apparently they did! i know they had vibrant dyes, but i'd like to know more on if the more complicated figurative patterns were typically woven in, dyed, or embroidered.

deargodsno

I may very well be wrong on some of these, but here are my educated guesses:

Top row - L and R both embroidered silk or very fine wool, with additional applied gold braid.

2nd row - L embroidered coverlet and outer hangings; inner hangings may be woven. R - woven check pillow cover with plain blanket, probably wool.

3rd row - L and R both figured velvets. Not necessarily silk, there were also mohair and fine worsted velvets.

4th row - L, I'm thinking woven 'diaper' pattern with embroidered edgings. But possibly the main body is also embroidered. R may be applique, which was fairly extensively used, but not much survives.

5th row - L, I genuinely have no idea, the variation of colours in a single row does suggest it's not a woven pattern. R, plain woven, the white lines could be woven or applied braid.

6th row - L is a King of France with canopy, hangings, and coverlet of custom woven Flemish tapestry, of the mille-fleurs type. Together with his majesty's gold-embroidered, ermine trimmed black houppelande, the whole ensemble speaks of eye-watering expense and stunning wealth. R is a plain woollen blanket with a woven stripe pattern that was still being used on wool blankets down to the early 20th century, although usually on a white, beige, or grey background.

7th row- L is almost certainly a coverlet of lampas-woven silk, and the design is possibly heraldic. R looks a lot like some of the Islamic silks that were around at the time, so it has the cachet of being exotic and imported, as well as a stunning design.