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Whatever happened to no taxation without representation? Gabe’s got the story on Puerto Rico: 

Captivating Knitted Illustrations by Rania Hassan

Rania Hassan is a DC-based artist, designer, painter, knitter, and printmaker. Her online shop Goshdarnknit caters original art, hand-print, notebooks and the perfect gifts to everybody. The artist is obsessed with moleskin material and original art illustrations.

Her knitted painting 3D series has been influenced by her recent discovery of the online community of knitters from around the planet.

The project is a series of paintings linked together by the yarn extending from the image. It escapes from one hand drawn illustration and spills out of each frame. The network of thread bridging one sketch to another is Rania Hassan’s interpretation of her ancestry. You can find more of her work in her Etsy shop.

Bronze Age mourners left lamb bones and limpet offerings in the coffin of a crippled prehistoric woman after disturbing her grave, say archaeologists who believe the body buried on a Scottish island could have belonged to a loom worker or net fisher.

A “relatively large” number of animal bones and fragments of shells, lobsters, crabs, sea urchins and starfishes were discovered by experts in the Lopness cist burial on Sanday, where the middle-aged or elderly woman was interred between 1890 and 1520BC. Debris and pottery from a capping mound fell into the coffin when its lid collapsed.