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Jillian Price
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32, she/her, ex-academic interested in the history of knitting and Arctic exploration. Nerdy and historical knitting found here. You may know me from elsewhere as "the one who knit the JFJ sweater from The Terror S1" or "the one who knit the OFMD Season 2 skelly hat"
Rebecca Olds18th century women's mitts ranged from exceedingly plain to highly decorative.
Here's a fistful of favourites:
1. Museum Fine Arts Boston, Accession No. 43.1968a-b, linen
2. Museum Rotterdam, No. 65828-1-2, embroidery on cotton
3. Fries Museum, No. T11118, knitted cotton
4. Worshipful Company of Glovers, No. 23448, metallic embroidery on silk
5. Museum Rotterdam, No. 20837-A-B, tambour embroidery on linen
Which is your favourite?
Today's gender is the sound of a clock ticking.
One two-ounce bobbin down, one to go. Not sure if I am going to ply this on itself or not… I have some painted roving that it might go well with.
Or I’ll just have un-plied bobbins all over my house. That’s fine too.
Sarah Ann Cunliffe, listing the number of stitches in her knitting, would have thrived on Fiber Art Youtube
(entry in the Great Exhibition catalogue, 1851; and the lace dress in question, held by the V&A)
John OverholtIt takes quite a bit of work to turn an 800-pound manatee carcass into a museum skeletal specimen, including some time buried in manure. (Photo of bones below, slightly gorier photo in the article.) https://coastalreview.org/2023/02/to-move-a-manatee-museum-catalogs-skeletal-specimen/ via @researchbuzz
To move a manatee: Museum catalogs skeletal specimen | Coastal Review
Getting an 800-pound manatee that stranded in 2021 in Kill Devil Hills to the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh, where its bones are being catalogued for researchers, took a lot of collaboration -- and dirty work.
Today's gender is the smell of fir trees.
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