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Ziemlich Bäume! via Mertz Library Digital Collections

TEXTILE MASH UP.

Whew! I just dove into a deep deep pool of textiles, patterns and power. My eyes are now beaming pattern light. Check this place out and if you have the money—spend it on South Persian Tribal rugs. Totally worth it. via Rug Rabbit

FLOWERING POWER.

Flower powers from Russia. These flowers are from my most favorite collections, Prokudin-Gorskii housed in the Library of Congress archives. The power really lies within the colors the photographs exude. The brightness of leaves, flowers, trees, grasses pull me into the world of the Russian Empire circa 1905. More Russia love here and here. and [...]

MS. HEYMANN.

Margarete Heymann—Bauhaus bad girl—unhappily left the school after one year. She appealed to founder Martin Gropius for permission to study ceramics. Bauhaus/Gropius strongly encouraged women to study textiles and most did. But Heymann refused, rocking the Bauhaus boat. Read more about her life via NYTimes Thanks to Carl Williamson for sharing this portrait. So so [...]