Kathleen Quaintance
@dreamkitsch.bsky.social
studies and teaches of the history of technology and art / phd student at yale, for my sins / my other car is a loom
Me doing natural dye workshops in 2025, vs. my mom doing a cooking show on the local TV channel in the 90s. 🥹
November 24, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Me doing natural dye workshops in 2025, vs. my mom doing a cooking show on the local TV channel in the 90s. 🥹
My grandpa passed away over a year ago and we're still finding gems among his extensive collection of tools + implements (he was an engineer and a farmer.) Why he would keep old castrating bands is beyond me, though...
November 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
My grandpa passed away over a year ago and we're still finding gems among his extensive collection of tools + implements (he was an engineer and a farmer.) Why he would keep old castrating bands is beyond me, though...
how to think about research from someone writing about handweaving in 1922
September 28, 2025 at 8:40 PM
how to think about research from someone writing about handweaving in 1922
Sound familiar?
March 22, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Sound familiar?
image of the day: drafting weaves on the typewriter!
March 6, 2025 at 4:18 AM
image of the day: drafting weaves on the typewriter!
pics from a 1940s weavers' zine :^)
March 4, 2025 at 5:46 PM
pics from a 1940s weavers' zine :^)
what do you do when you're the smithsonian's first curator of photographs c.1900? why, you take a portrait of a storage drawer, of course: the essence of the museum, captured!
March 4, 2025 at 5:48 AM
what do you do when you're the smithsonian's first curator of photographs c.1900? why, you take a portrait of a storage drawer, of course: the essence of the museum, captured!
images of the day 3/3: thank you, creative commons! My heart beats for you. Check out antiquepatternlibrary.org , all my fellow textile nerds :)
March 4, 2025 at 4:31 AM
images of the day 3/3: thank you, creative commons! My heart beats for you. Check out antiquepatternlibrary.org , all my fellow textile nerds :)
oh it was goofy, right next to the man-made horrors. real historians know: looking for something else entirely, i found this in 40s Time Magazine: homoerotic underwear ad next to images of dead german spies (content warning!!)
February 27, 2025 at 3:06 AM
oh it was goofy, right next to the man-made horrors. real historians know: looking for something else entirely, i found this in 40s Time Magazine: homoerotic underwear ad next to images of dead german spies (content warning!!)
image of the day: blooming leaf overshot sample by me, after my great-great-aunt (& countless other nameless people who've used the same pattern.) thinking about authorship, co-temporality, & their limits
February 26, 2025 at 4:48 PM
image of the day: blooming leaf overshot sample by me, after my great-great-aunt (& countless other nameless people who've used the same pattern.) thinking about authorship, co-temporality, & their limits
image of the day: this incanabula c.1490, "de arithmetica," dedicated to a medici and one of the first printed math textbooks. I <3 didactic material
February 25, 2025 at 7:31 PM
image of the day: this incanabula c.1490, "de arithmetica," dedicated to a medici and one of the first printed math textbooks. I <3 didactic material
images of the day are my teaching samples for dye classes! the takeaway lesson: all things are mutable
February 24, 2025 at 10:46 PM
images of the day are my teaching samples for dye classes! the takeaway lesson: all things are mutable
something i love about 20thc handweaving is that the communities are so small that the publishers of weaving newsletters like this one were confident that their readers would (a) know who mr. coalby is and (b) know of mr. coalby's recent plight and (c) be joyed at his recovery
February 24, 2025 at 10:43 PM
something i love about 20thc handweaving is that the communities are so small that the publishers of weaving newsletters like this one were confident that their readers would (a) know who mr. coalby is and (b) know of mr. coalby's recent plight and (c) be joyed at his recovery
Ursula K. LeGuin on how only a post-menopausal woman could successfully communicate with aliens. into the space ship, granny!
February 24, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Ursula K. LeGuin on how only a post-menopausal woman could successfully communicate with aliens. into the space ship, granny!
images of the day: embroidery from 2021 and a Nancy comic in honor of how icy everything is
February 20, 2025 at 8:41 PM
images of the day: embroidery from 2021 and a Nancy comic in honor of how icy everything is
2 images of the day, 2/19: exquisite gauze, 1000+years old, dug up in the arid coastal desert of modern-day Peru; and one of McLuhan's many kooky diagrams
February 19, 2025 at 6:43 PM
2 images of the day, 2/19: exquisite gauze, 1000+years old, dug up in the arid coastal desert of modern-day Peru; and one of McLuhan's many kooky diagrams