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Tove Jansson - Sleeping in the Roots 1930

Sylvie Vartan & Jacques Dutronc, France, September 1967. Photographed by Jean-Marie Périer.

I've been trying to distract myself from the horrors of modern life by knitting unnecessarily complex cable swatches. They are partly inspired by printer's ornaments and other typographic elements.

I'm really proud of this, I knit the same vest pattern (but with different, simpler colourwork) almost exactly 2 years ago, and seeing my progress since then is really cool!

As printed books began to displace illuminated manuscripts, the production of the latter went commercial, no longer produced only by the hands of individual monks. But some of those monks, like Schriber, kept up their dedication to the craft: “These pages show an artist trying out animal motifs, practicing curlicued embellishments, and drafting beautiful presentations of the capital letters that would begin a section, page, or paragraph.” Read more

Illustration by W.V. Cockburn for Bram Stoker's The Invisible Giant, 1882

BOSCH, Hieronymus The Cure of Folly (Extraction of the Stone of Madness) 1475-80 Oil on panel, 48 x 35 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid

Castles - art by Alan Lee (1984)

1910s princess slip

Corbels of Kilpeck, 1140AD

Vintage wind-up toy bear (USSR, 1920s-30s)