Historian of material culture. I like stuff!
Madison WI USA
Joined January 2019
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I have an annual Christmas tradition of baking a Sachertorte and decorating it. It’s my happy moment of zen, just for me, every year. Here’s 2025’s effort.
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Two @UWMadison quilt exhibitions celebrate the naming of the School of Human Ecology’s Nancy M. Bruce Center for Design and Material Culture. See how quilt artists are both honoring tradition and pushing it in new directions.
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The algorithms are making it a lot harder to spread the word about these online talks. Although numbers are still reasonable, it would be a great help if folk were able to give the 30 December event a quick share 🙂
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As part of #Glasgow850, our ‘Talks’ series brings together writers, artists, and historians to uncover the many layers of the city’s history and culture. This month, Dr Robyne Calvert joins us to talk about "Through The Fires: Mackintosh & The Glasgow School of Art."
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'November' from Eliot Hodgkin's 'The Months', 1950. A brocade-coloured chrysanthemum, reddening geranium leaves, the first blanched chicory, arbutus unedo fruits, bulbs and seeds for autumn planting.
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Evening Dress, “Princess” Collection, Cristóbal Balenciaga, 1967. This evening gown captures the restrained grandeur of Balenciaga’s final Paris years, when his vision of modern elegance had distilled to pure line and surface.
Cristóbal Balenciaga Museo, Getaria (Spain)
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For everyone who’s feeling flat, low, or just plain exhausted here’s a painting of some sweet peas to lift your mood. The antique pink lustreware jar has the Sailors Farewell on the side.
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Were you a part of history last night? 💜
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💥The Bernat Klein Studio has been saved! This morning the coalition of Scottish heritage organisations secured the property at auction with a winning bid of £279,000.
The studio will now be restored, creating a new venue to inspire creative arts in the Scottish Borders, bringing the building back into public and community use. C20 Society looks forward to working closely with the project team as it develops.
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Ephemeral beauty of homegrown sweet peas.
I wish I could somehow let you smell them.
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“What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.”
Jane Austen in a letter to her sister Cassandra.
#BookChatWeekly #BookologyThursday #FolkloreSunday #Midsummer
Image: Valentine Cameron Prinsep
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Goodnight Moon was based on the author's process of listing all her favorite things in her room as a way to inspire herself to get up in the morning. For the book, she reversed the ritual 99pi's Joe Rosenberg has the story 99percentinvisible.org/episo…
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This stunning wedding dress of 1927 is the very essence of #Frockingfabulous; sadly, the maker is unknown. #fashionhistory via Chicago History Museum.
