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Tove Jansson - Sleeping in the Roots 1930

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

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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.

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[ID: 4 photos of a green v-neck sweater vest, with designs from 1760 in light beige yarn. The first two photos show the front and back of the vest. There is a design with birds and flowers circling the bottom. The front has a lying down dog, facing left but with its head turned back to the right. The back has a man on a horse, holding a bird in his hand. The v-neck and armholes are 1x1 ribbed, and the hem is ribbed in a “baby cable” pattern. The third photo shows a close up of the colourwork from the inside. The birds along the bottom are stranded, whereas the larger designs on the front and back use ladderback jacquard. The fourth photo shows a closeup of the design along the bottom. Two birds face eachother, with a pole inbetween them and candlesticks to the side of them. End ID]

A sweater vest for my friend, using designs from a 1760 german pattern book that i meticulously copied into stitchfiddle and then arranged onto a pattern.

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!

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I want to take these pictures to a hair dresser but I don’t think they will understand the vision

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The illuminated sketchbook of Stephan Schriber is a series of pages dating from 1494 in which “ideas and layouts for illuminated manuscripts were tried out and skills developed” by the author, a monk in the southwest of Germany. 

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

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

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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

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Castles - art by Alan Lee (1984)

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1910s princess slip

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Corbels of Kilpeck, 1140AD

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

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