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Open Access! #textiles #fashionsky #dresshistory

Fellow archaeologists out there can we have a conversation about the use of AI in the materials we produce for the public. I know that a lot of us are increasingly frustrated by the use of AI in media and all the awful stereotypes that we have spent decades trying to challenge creeping back in

That's the bit everyone gets wrong. They try to look like the 80s/90s and they pick whatever was in fashion or what was on TV show sets at that time. Most people lag about a decade behind whatever the furniture and decor trends are because they only buy stuff when they need to replace them.

Game on Russell, vintage shop gold @durotrigesdig.bsky.social #ArchaeoBadgeGate

I am so happy I got to write this for Flytrap Fridays. Nerdery, ahoy!

La Reine Berthe et les fileuses https://www.wikiart.org/en/albert-anker/la-reine-berthe-et-les-fileuses-1888

Really lovely article on archaeology through the eyes of archaeologists' 'spouses, parents, children, and close friends' - just published in Public Archaeology: 'Archaeological Osmosis or How Is Archaeology Seen by Those Who Share Our Lives?' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Seeing some of the best magazines for #SciArt and science writing hollowed out (SciAm isn’t the only one) is terribly sad and infuriating. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

This isn’t the comics piece I mention below (as it’s not out yet!) but I look forward to reading the special issue when published: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

Fb reminded me of this article written by @lemoustier.bsky.social @brennawalks.bsky.social @suziebirch.bsky.social and @toriherridge.bsky.social that is worth re-reading again. Published 10 years ago, don't think it's out of date!

This is the textile accuracy I live for in film. #textiles 🧶

I’m ashamed to say it took me a minute.

Really looking forward to hearing Emily St John Mandel talk about her new novel this Sunday at the Playhouse! #HamOnt #BookSky

Snuck a lil embroidery time in at the end of the night. Heart staff!! Might use those same colors in their garment, because ~theme~ And yeah, I didn't plan any of the colors out ahead of time because I am a being of pure chaos. #embroidery

Grasshopper and Beetles. 1951. Leonard Baskin. Linocut. Plate 23 from A Little Book of Natural History.

Any fish folks?

Mavis Beacon still exists! I remember my mom making me learn on this program in the late 80s/ early 90s. www.mymavisbeacon.com

It's Wednesday, and I wanted to take a moment to highlight Rachel Carson, who wrote lovingly about eels in her first book, UNDER THE SEA WIND (1941). Part of the book follows Anguilla the eel on her long migration from a small New England pond all the way to the Sargasso Sea. 1/3 🗃️🧪

Great to see the actual color of lac! This pigment was a major commodity traded from India to Yemen and Egypt. One of the Geniza merchants who dealt in dyes and dyed cloth was known as al-Urjuwānī, "the purple dealer" Some of the Geniza documents about lac --> geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents...

Ok this is something that only I will care about but in the Sound of Music during that berry picking scene they said it was too early for blueberries but strawberries were fine which would make that scene around May WHICH WAS AFTER THE ANSCHLUSS IN MARCH 1938

THIS IS NOT A DRILL I just met a kid at the grocery store, maybe 7 years old, pulling one of these - a little wooden beaver on wheels, whose tail goes up and down as it rolls. HUMANITY CONTINUES AS WE HAVE ALWAYS DONE.

Check it, nerds. Recent find of late stage Maglemosian (8400 BP) antler axe with preserved wooden handle from Egholm, Northern Jutland. Fantastic to see that we still have conditions in Denmark for such fantastic organic preservation. Because it probably won’t be long before we don’t.

This sentence “When we pause and lean back from the screen, however, our lived present is made up of the ruins of past futures, our legs constantly kicking against the expensive debris of earlier fantasies.” This phrase “…the ruins of past futures…”

Mystery yak

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The rippling water effect on the images is…dreamy (and you can turn it off if you’d prefer).

love this piece in @literaryhub.bsky.social #medievalsky lithub.com/what-to-read...

Continuing posting on making comics accessible for blind/low vision readers, this part of our comic shows 6 possible ways of translating just a single panel, to really illustrate how one size doesn’t fit all needs. Accessibility is messy & an artistic act itself! spinweaveandcut.com/mitcomic/

These fragments from a Roman villa in Spain are not from a mosaic but from a fresco. If you look closely you’ll see a grid of lines, many following the contour of the figures, much as tesserae do on mosaics. This trompe-l’oeil technique simulates mosaics. 1/ 🏺 1st-2nd c. Museo de Málaga 📸 me

I haven't seen this posted here, but thank you to Jona Schlegel (archaeoink on Instagram) for making this #archink #inktober list. Not sure I'll be able to contribute this year, but I always love to see more archaeology drawings.