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Nic
@eldergoth.bsky.social
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Medieval dress historian 1200-1500.
Creative practice researcher: re-creating historic (medieval) dress as academic practice
They/them. Grimm fairy tales fancier.
And lots more, but we shall focus on that bit, shan't we?
Also, in Scotland. Plus bilingual.
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Goodnight from Tristan who likes to lovingly suffocate me. #CatSky
White cat with black forehead being comfy on my chest, incidentally smooshing his furry body into my face and nose.
February 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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My Sunday is sorted. This is a great book, very enjoyable read.
Buettner, B. (2022) The mineral and the visual: Precious stones in Medieval secular culture. Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press. #MedievalSky
Book cover of "The mineral and the visual: precious stones in medieval secular culture", which has the image of a manuscript as background, with coloured roundels and the names of the gems they represent
February 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Happy #Caturday evening from the Sentinel of the House.
Tristan uses his baby kitten scratching post as a plinth. I think he's quite majestic, aye? #CatSky
White cat with Dalmation spots is sitting on a small kitten sized scratching mini post (with colourful dots on the pale blue fluffy fabric), looking attentively out of the window
February 22, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Rosy pink toe beans! #CatSky
Closeup of very pink and very adorable toe beans of a young white cat with Dalmation spots. He is snoozing on a pale turquoise pad, his equally rosy pink nose is a bit blurred in the background. I used portrait mode because of course.
February 19, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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I am excitedly asking because the artefact I am creating (c.1200 dress) has gemstones on the yoke embroidery, mimicking precious ones and either semi precious ones of the period (e.g. amethyst) they are also mimicking semi precious ones of the period. Hang on, here is a photo. 1/2
photo of an arrangement of semi precious stones, all tumbled
February 19, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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What's your favourite moment of the day?
Mine is the first sip of coffee.
Colourful huge mug of coffee with painted sunflowers in the warm glow of an early morning desk setup, held up against the monitor that has Bluesky on
February 13, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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My workplace today ist (probably? Possibly?) Prettier than yours. Shyte weather, but it is Scotland, so...
Medieval looking building with pointy tower against a cloudy, steel grey sky. Don't believe the look, though, it was built in the 19th century in the Scottish Baronial style
February 12, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Signs you are in Scotland: I found a Buckfast in the Wild. #Scotland
A smaller size bottle of buckfast leaning against a wall at the train station. The flash illuminates its empty sadness in the semi-dark.
February 12, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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A lovely wee introduction to the broad, diverse and fascinating subject of how and why people coloured textiles. Kay-Williams, S. (2013) The story of colour in textiles: imperial purple to denim blue. London: Bloomsbury. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/story-of-...
book cover of the story of colour in textiles. four images of textiles are shown. on the top is a yellow silk with what seems like stylised flowers, on the top right a blue with a delicate geometric woven design in white. bottom left is a sumptuous red brocade and on the right a blue on white chinoiserie
February 11, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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Busy preparing the the belt fittings. #DressHistory #Making
Brown leather is laid out on a white table with a bunch of tools, such as rulet, pen, scissors, nose pliers
February 9, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Sunday Funday non-English dye rec: Struckmeier, S. (2011) Die Textilfärberei vom Spätmittelalter bis zur Frühen Neuzeit (14.-16. Jahrhundert): eine naturwissenschaftlich-technische Analyse deutschsprachiger Quellen. Cottbuser Studien zur Geschichte von Technik, Arbeit und Umwelt Münster: Waxmann.
Book cover with a red background and title written in white, see the post for the title and author information. In the middle is a late medieval image from a handbook of trades showig a bearded man dying cloth red in a brick vat.
February 9, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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Luckily, the c.1350 silk tablet woven belt is long enough. Now to fix the belt fittings. Does anyone know how best to do that? I am not sure to be honest, I used to let others do the metal work. Belt fittings are from Ukrainian artesans, enamel and gilded, recreation of an extant one #DressHistory
Gorgeous reproduction of a 14th century belt buckle and strap end. They are gilded and have enameled depictions of female figures with beast bodies. BTW, I never thought I'd write something like that, but such is the medievalist's lot. The belt buckle itself, the curved bit, if only I knew what it was called, anyway, that one is also a woman with a beast bird body. Macro of the green silk tablet woven belt. It's a simple monocolour weave but the sheen is lovely View from above of the green silk tablet woven belt. There are imperfections, but luckily the weave itself is fine. Tablet weaving will never be something I enjoy, it drives me batty. This was made from fine filament silk in a fresh May green
February 8, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Happy Caturday.
Giro and Tristan playing. And no, none of the stuff on the floor is rubbish, it is all because especially Tristan loves to play with those things, and what you see is only a selection of what's on my floor. 👀 Paper, cardboard and bags = Tristan's delight #CatSky
Photo of Tristan, white cat with Dalmation spots lying on a grey slate floor, and Giro playing. Giro is hidden in a crinkly cat tunnel made to look like a green dragon with yellow spikes, her black head is peeking out of a side hole. Lots of stuff that seems to be rubbish is lying around on the floor, but it's all things especially Tristan loves to play with. Meters of brown paper, several different types of crinkly bags, cardboard box.
February 8, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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1503-06 The mocking of Christ, Matthias Grünewald. Photos by me taken in 2015, Alte Pinakothek, Munich. Note the interesting hose construction, including a crotch gusset similar to underarm gussets. I picked out the seams in yellow to show their position. #DressHistory
1503-06 The mocking of Christ in full. In the front is a man from the back, wearing tight hose and a short doublet. Closeup of the man's trouser seat with interesting panels in the construction Closeup of the leg and a different view of the construction seams, also picked out Closeup of the man's trouser seat with interesting panels in the construction, drawn on in yellow to show where they are
February 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Chenciner, R. (2000) Madder red: a history of luxury and trade: plant dyes and pigments in world commerce and art. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon.
"The secret and devilishly complex Oriental dyeing process to obtain the lustrous colour known as Turkey Red was avidly sought by Europeans"
Book cover of "madder red" in a very bright, not unexpectedly, red. In the middle is a drawing of madder plants in blue on white.
February 6, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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1465 detail of Adoration of the Magi by Dieric Bouts the older. I took the photos in 2015 in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich. Her dark blue dress is lined with grey fur, and look at the finely frilled edge of her pinned-up linen wimple. A shift peeks through at her neckline. #HistoricDress
15th century painting, the detail shows a woman in a dark blue dres standing and looking down. Her headddress is a fine white linen wimple with frilled edges pinned up on her head.
February 5, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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From the fantastic Woven into the Earth: Walton Rogers, P. (2009) 'Fibres and Dyes in Norse Textiles', in Østergård, E. (ed.) Woven into the earth: Textiles from Norse Greenland. Aarhus: Aarhus University, pp. 79-92. en.unipress.dk/udgivelser/w...
Book cover of Ostergard's woven into the earth. Dark blue background with a photo of the coast of Greenland in the middle. Craggy coastal hill with scraggly yellow-green vegetaion, and the sea right in front.
February 5, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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if you see this post your pride flags
Asexual pride flag Agender pride flag
February 5, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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"misanthropic, be-whiskered sociopaths" 🤣
Could this face belong to such a creature?
(yes, yes it could)
Young cat face, white with black forehead and ears (which are delectably pale pink inside though) looking extremely cute with his head tilted to the side. His nosey-wose is the pinkest palest adorableness. In reality, however, he is a destructive menace. (and the most darling cattywoo)
February 4, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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Hartl, A., Proaño Gaibor, A. N., van Bommel, M. R. and Hoffmann-de Keijzer, R. (2015) 'Searching for blue: Experiments with woad fermentation vats and an explanation of the colours through dye analysis', Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2, pp. 9-39. doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...
image from the article which shows many samples of wool with different colours throughout the woad dyeing process
February 4, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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I am joining MAH's lovely morning thread with an evening Bellarmine jug (shard). Photo taken all the way in 2003 in the wee local museum in Attendorn, Germany.
Cheerful bearded man face on a shard of the top of a 17th century Bellarmine jug in a museum display case. The beard is massive. Seriously, the kind of beard that gives shelter to birds, beasts, and the morning's egg yolk alike.
February 3, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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My back is hurting, I've been in a weird position for a couple of hours, but I can't because my lovely old lump Giro is snoozing on my legs. She doesn't often do that, usually it's young Tristan who wants cuddles, so… I suppose I just have to suffer. #CatSky
Old black cat with a white paw is curled up on my elevated legs that are covered with a grey blanket
February 2, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Throughout the month of February I am posting recs for research on natural dyes and (textile) colours in the Middle Ages. I am starting with the 'holy book': Cardon, D. (2007) Natural dyes: sources, tradition, technology and science. Translated by: Higgitt, C. London: Archetype Publications.
Book cover with the title in a red square in the middle: Natural Dyes. The background is a photo of coloured fibres under a microscope.
February 2, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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Thomas Cole "The course of Empire", five paintings (1833-36). Here: Arcadian state, the Consummation, Destruction, Desolation.
Cole's description of tha last painting: "The gorgeous pageant has passed – the roar of battle has ceased – the multitude has sunk in the dust – the empire is extinct."
Four paintings arranged in a square panel. The series depicts the growth and fall of an imaginary city, situated on the lower end of a river valley, near its meeting with a bay of the sea. The valley is identifiable in each of the paintings, in part because of a distinct landmark: a large boulder is situated atop a crag overlooking the valley. Some critics believe this is meant to contrast the immutability of the earth with the transience of man.
February 2, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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Cats are weird. How is this comfy? #CatSky
Tristan, young white cat with black forehead and Dalmatian spots, is in his soft pad on my glossy white desk, lying on his stomach, but his head is outside of the pad with his chin on the hard desk
January 31, 2025 at 3:10 PM