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iTEXTILIS | The IK Workshop Society

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iTEXTILIS – Part of The IK Foundation @ikws.eurosky.social – Promoting Natural & Cultural History. iTEXTILIS led by Viveka Hansen | Textile historian | Textilis.net

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 2w ago

Beloved toy: An over 1800-year-old rag-doll made from linen and stuffed with flexible filling, and dressed in linen garments. The hair is made of human hair. The eyes, eyebrows, and mouth are painted on. The doll is one of the most elaborate of its kind and presumably belonged to a... 🧵1/2

A rag doll made from stitched cloth with a stuffed torso and long sewn legs, dressed in a coarse beige tunic that shows holes and mending. The doll has dark, tousled textile hair; a pale, painted face with simple eyes and mouth; small gold earrings hanging at the sides of the head, wearing a neck ring and bracelets too. The doll is shown upright against a black background.
Oscar Lozada@oz-of-the-ancients.bsky.social · last wk.

Look closely and you'll see this 'painting' is actually an extraordinary micro-mosaic! 👀 #MosaicMonday Inspired by ancient mosaics, they use thousands of tiny glass pieces! This one was made in Rome in 1820, and depicts the ruins of Paestum near Naples Now in Anglesey Abbey near Cambridge 📸 Me 🏺

A micro-mosaic image depicting a rural Italian landscape with several small people standing in the foreground, with the large ruins of ancient temples in the fields in the background surrounded by herds or livestock
Daniel Bellingradt@dbellingradt.bsky.social · 3w ago

Before reading. You see potential buyers of books and prints staring at window panes of the bookseller shop 'Eccentric Book Warehouse', St John Street, London, in 1803. Behind the windows were title pages of books and other bookish ads to lure them into the shop. Come in, buy stuff ... #bookhistory

A man showing a boy something that is behind a window of a book shop.An etching of 1803 showing a London book shop. View of the shop front with men, women and children looking in the windows to either side of the open doorway; a servant carrying a parcel on his head at left, a coach to right. Source: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_Heal-17-44
John McCafferty@jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 3w ago

Book cover of tapestry woven silk and silver and silver threads, possibly made by Sheldon Tapestry Workshops, Warwickshire, ca. 1615 Moses & the burning bush Jonah & the Whale (V&A Museum, London)

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