VEG DYE

The Katherine Pettit Book of Vegetable Dyes, learn how here. The handwoven, vegetable dyed throw is by Helen Wilmer Stone Viner, made in the 1930s. Katherine Pettit taught her how to dye at the Pine Mountain Settlement School in Kentucky.

RAINBOW DIVISION

Rainbows in the military—The ‘Rainbow Division’ was the nickname given to the U.S. 42nd Division. It comprised units from 26 states across the country. Colonel Douglas MacArthur remarked that “the 42nd Division stretches like a Rainbow from one end of America to the other”. 1. Rainbow Division officers from WW1 2. Michigan 42nd Rainbow Division [...]

MAT

Door, place—mats! All shapes and sizes from all around the world. I’m loving the degenerated quality of the images. They all look like ’80s video art to me. via Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection at the University of Wisconsin  

INDIAN PICS

Enormous, beautiful collection of LIFE mag pictures of India via Old Indian Photos. Loving that one piece suit, or in Australia loving that ‘cozzie’. 1. Pakistani womens educational conference Orthodox Moslem, 1947 2. Hand signal used in Bombay Stock Exchange, 1946 3. Hindi Movie Actress Mohana Cabral 4. Young woman preparing wood to light fire, [...]

SS ANGORA

Oh dear. I was drawn in by the rabbits and didn’t read the doomed title until after I inserted all the images—Angora: Rabbit Raising in Nazi Concentration Camps The Angora rabbit project was an SS-administered program to breed rabbits for their soft, warm fur, one use of which was to line the jackets of Luftwaffe [...]

TOUCH

Work and play at the New York Association of the Blind in NYC. via City Museum of New York

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