Embroidery, Lace, & General Chaos

I’m making a smocked dress! Lots of work but I’m really enjoying it.

She’s finished! As you can see it’s too big for the mannequin, but it fits the intended wearer so well. It’s got a pocket, a huge seam allowance, and hang straps. The smocking took approximately 20 hours. I was told not to bother with smocking the straps but I’m very happy that I did. It was actually a relatively easy process and I had so much fun doing it. Definitely one for the portfolio.

These people are why the Confederates were never punished.

The fabric store in the video isn't even in the same country as me, but I sat on that very same pattern on the way to work yesterday!

if anything, you can check wikipedia’s sources and figure out if those are proper sources before you use anything from wikipedia, and see how often those sources turn out to be shitty

theres been major vandalism issues for a bunch of indigenous tribes as well but ive not heard of any that is quite this large scale or quite this bonkers (he started doing it as a 12 year old!)

Shawl. third quarter 19th century. Credit line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/227357

people are living in fantasy worlds we can’t even begin to imagine

people are living in fantasy worlds where america is the only country with anti-vaxxers

This plate was found in a London sewer. "You And I Are Earth”, from 1661.

This ridiculous thing was very fun to make. One down one to go.

People planting new trees and grasslands on the edge of the Sahara desert aren’t trying to get rid of the entire desert. They’re replacing the natural root systems that kept the soil from blowing away that have been eaten away by overgrazing. They’re replacing the natural barrier that keeps the desert in its goddamned place.

This phenomenal and enormous “diamond” necklace, created by Eugene Joseff was most famously worn by the great Greta Garbo as Marguerite Gautier in the 1936 film 𝑪𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒆.   Joseff, usually known as “Joseff of Hollywood,” rented his jewelry to all of the Hollywood studios, so it is no surprise that this necklace later appeared in the 1940 United Artists film 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑾𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒓, where it was worn by Lilian Bond portraying Lily Langtry.   We’ve documented quite a few of Joseff’s pieces over the years, so be sure to check them out on our website: Bit.ly/Access209