IKAT ADDICTIONS.

So so so many trance inducing colors and patterns. A visual wake up on this gloomy Monday. The V&A has an addicting visual archive of Ikat fabrics from 19th century Central Asia. See more and more here.

HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSON.

We all know Hans Christian Anderson’s pleasantly haunting fairy tales. But who knew he collected hundreds of images, collaging them into spectacularly psychedelic books!? Thankfully Troels Andersen, director of the Silkeborg Kunstmuseum, lent the original compilation to the Royal Library so that it could be scanned, and also gave permission for it to be published [...]

RUSSIAN EMPIRE WOMEN.

I found these bold, bright women through the Library of Congress’s Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection. A brilliant collection of textiles, patterns and landscapes are vividly representing through these wonderful women of the Russain Empire. And I love the transparent rainbow overlays on the photographs borders, makes it all even better.
The Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection features [...]

DIAGRAMS OF MYSTIC CHISTIANITY.

Diagrams of most everything are pleasing to the eye. Especially if combined with fanatical religious treatises. The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception or Mystic Christianity An Elementary Treatise Upon Man’s Past Evolution, Present Constitution and Future Development By Max Heindel discovered by devout routine investigator, B.S. is a heavy text induced site peppered with precise black and white [...]

SWEETETSY!

Etsy, “Your place to buy and sell all things handmade” is an online shop that offers designers, crafters and artists a welcome place to sell their wares. Super amazing, creative and soft handmade items galore! It’s a smart thing, supporting the talented artisans of the world. Sweet Alison, Etsy Reviewer/blogger, wrote the best little paragraph [...]

LA SALON.

I recently discovered the online digital image collection of the Los Angeles Public Library. While it’s not as vast as the New York Public Library Digital Galley (which is a wonder) I found the California perspective refreshing. This photograph of an old Western saloon was unearthed while searching for the Mojave Desert images. Excitedly inspired [...]

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