Wild night  -   Kenne Grégoire , 2023.

Dutch, b. 1951 -

Acrylic on linenl , 100 x 120 cm.

Gino De' Bini - Illustration from Lucifer by Mario Rapisardi (1887)

These are smocking patterns. If you stitch these patterns into flat fabric and then pull the threads to gather the fabric, it will produce these patterns on the finished fabric. Smocking manipulates flat fabric into three dimensions.

The beautiful fabric that looked like dragon scales on costumes in the tv show Game of Thrones were produced by smocking, by sewing a particular pattern into the fabric and then pulling those threads just the right amount to gather the fabric into that pattern.

One form of arrowwhead/dragonscale smocking:

via shanniemakes with tutorial

and a full tutorial by Michele Carragher, the head embroiderer on Game of Thrones (with step-by-step photos) reposted here [original website link is no longer live]

and as seen on game of thrones:

SO THAT'S HOW THEY DO IT

Cherry Blossom at Night in the Maruyama Park by Yoshikawa Kanpo, ca. 1925

Cemeteries of Paris in my analog camera

Paris, France; VIII 2023

神戸・植物園

What We Do in the Shadows 2014, dir. Taika Waititi, Jemaine Clement

Being sensitive to changes in barometric pressure is crazy what do you mean my problem is that the wind changed direction. What do you mean it's the fuckin clouds

Dean Cornwell - On the Doorstep (1919)

Today, we have a few pressed flowers found in a bound volume of The Casket : Flowers of Literature, Wit & Sentiment from 1830.

Franz Schubert (1797-1828) - String Quartet No. 14 "Death and the Maiden" in d-minor, D. 810, I. Allegro. Performed by Casal Quarett on period instruments.

James Watterston Herald (Scottish, 1859-1914) - The Bride

I’ve got time. I’ve got lots of time.

The Green Knight (2021) dir. David Lowery

Quilt 1885

Artist/maker unknown, American Made for Sarah Minturn Bacon Edge (American, 1853–1916); made for Jacob Valentine Edge (American, 1841–1913)

Medium: silk and cotton blend satin, silk floss and chenille embroidery, silk cord trim with cotton core, cotton batting, silk taffeta lining

Philadelphia Museum of Art

best messages of depeche mode

death and the maiden

niklaus manuel deutsch c. 1517, richard bergh 1888, matthias claudius c. 1774, hans baldung grien c. 1520—25, niklaus manuel deutsch c. 1517, hans sebald beham c. 1547, hans baldung grien c. 1517, edvard munch c. 1893—94, joseph beuys 1957, egon schiele c. 1915—16, karl siegfried guthke 1999