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i am scouring the internet like the victorians scoured and destroyed all trace of joy and color from stolen relics for the LOST NAME OF THE ANCIENT PROCESS of textile-creation akin to knitting/crocheting/nålebinding that at least one academic/crafter used to recreate the leggings on this Glorious Motherfucker:

Archer statue from the Temple of Aphaia (ca. 480 BC) next to a reconstruction of its original paint job:

The leggings and sleeves would have created using a method called SPRANG which predates knitting and is over 3,000 years old. What's even sexier is modern artisans managed to recreate the entire outfit using the original method!

Mmm-HMM, love me a shapely thigh in harlequin hosiery. Put👏men👏in👏clingy-ass👏clothing👏again👏👏👏

Unfortunately english sources are hard to find, partly because Google's a shithole, but also because this textile project comes from a German museum, in Germany, where people tend to speak (and publish) in German. That said, the original link is to a short-but-sweet article I would have had no problem finding in 30 seconds a mere few years ago. fortunately i have clever beautiful insane people following me, but alas not everyone has such luxury. thanks to everyone in the notes who shoved themselves down this rabbithole with me!

I heard you throw mud at frienzied alphas to calm them down. Is this true?

A Nervous Old Man (right) and his Emotional Support Violence Machine (Left)

having museums full of reproductions would be even cooler than having museums full of sacred artifacts because when modern craftspeople are able to replicate those artifacts, it’s usually because they still make the same items the same way today

this means that you could have description tags emphasizing that such-and-such item has been made by these people in almost the same way for hundreds of years

'Just buy some fabric and sew your own plushies!' - Who made the fabric? Who grew the cotton? Where did the oil for the polyester stuffing come from? Who manufactured the sewing machine? What did the workers at all levels get paid? Especially for you to be able to buy the materials and make a profit on what you sell?

'Just re-purpose old t-shirts!' - Who made the t-shirts? Who grew the cotton? Where did the dyes come from? How did so many t-shirts end up where you are? Would you even have a supply of t-shirts to re-purpose if it were not for exploitative supply chains and overproduction?

'Just make your own charms out of shrinky dinks!' - Where did the oil for the plastic come from? Who manufactured the shrinks dinks? What materials are in the packaging? What is the supply chain for the heat source you are using? If you are against acrylic charms bc they are plastic and will end up not decomposing in a landfill and releasing microplastics into the water, how is manufacturing plastic merch yourself by hand supposed to be any better for the environment?

Swablu, based on the TCG art by Jiro Sasumo.

Another 3D redraw for @poketcg-art's Pokédex collab! I immediately fell in love upon seeing the original card artwork for this, as Swablu is incredibly cute in it. This meant that my main goal was to make sure that it remained adorable in 3D, while taking a bunch of liberties in pretty much all other parts of the scene.

Original and progress gif under the cut: