green & shimmering

Lingerie by Bill Gibb, 1976.

by @kirstinacustomnails on ig

Alex Alemany

a stained glass living room design by Harris Armstrong

From the 1986 Sears Catalog

Choctaw bridal dress, United States of America, by Theresa Kelly

Glasswinged butterflies are a South American species known for their transparent wings. They look fragile but can carry up to 40 times their own strength. The pink butterfly in the first picture is an Amazon variety that has a “blush” shade to its clear wings.

wightwick manor, wolverhampton, england by jo gemmell

“Two women rest and have a cigarette during a horseback adventure through rough terrain circa July, 1954 in Jasper, Alberta, Canada. Photo by Hy Peskin.”

For nearly a decade since the late 1970s artist Takanori Aiba worked as a maze illustrator for Japanese fashion magazine POPYE. The following decade he worked as an architect and finally in 2003 decided to merge the two crafts—the design of physical space and the drawing of labyrinths—into these incredibly detailed tiny worlds. Using craft paper, plastic, plaster, acrylic resin, paint and other materials Aiba constructs sprawling miniature communities that wrap around bonsai trees, lighthouses, and amongst the cliffs of nearly vertical islands. I would love to visit every single one of these places, if only I was 6 feet shorter. See more of Aiba’s work here.

Girls standing in water holding bunches of American Lotus, Amana, Iowa, November 1938.Photograph by J. Baylor Roberts, National Geographic

Toy elephant, made in India in the 10th century (source).

woodblock print by Taniguchi Kokyo (1864-1915), dated 1925