REPTILE DRESSER.

I would never thought Christopher Dresser designed this textile. It’s a Victorian surprise. Patented textile pattern by Christopher Dresser, one of Victorian Britain’s leading industrial designers. This design was intended for dress fabric for the African market. c. 1887 via UK National Archives Flickr

HAIRSTYLIN’.

Hairstyles in the Congo (Democratic Republic) in the early ’70s. Looking goooood! top it off with — gold hoops & elaborated printed textiles. via Smithsonian photographs by Eliot Elisofon

the MET.

Dance Wand (Bair), Papua New Guinea, Late 19th–early 20th century.   Feathered Hanging, Peru, 7th–16th century   Miniature dress, Peru, 7th–16th century   Miniature dress, Peru, 7th–16th century   Double Spout Bottle, Peru, 2nd–4th century   Floral collar from Tutankhamun’s Embalming Cache, Egypt, 1336–1327 B.C.   Moses & Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of Dinteville [...]

CAMEROON CRAFTS.

Weaving, beading, dancing, haircuts and more! Yesterday at Housing Works Bookstore I stumbled upon this wonder – Crafts and the arts of living in the Cameroon. Published in 1982 and curiously funded by Mobil Oil Cameroon. Photographs by Harri Peccinotti.

TRAVEL PICS.

Retired scientist Galen Frysinger has traveled the world and seven seas. (172 independent countries plus 91 dependencies) Get lost in his intricate and dense photo archives. Wow.above: Greenland, Brazil, Greenland, Libya, Easter Island, Nauruvia Galen Frysinger      

S. AFRICA.

Rural life in South Africa, 1946-1947. Photographs by Constance Stuart Larrabee. I’m reading Martha Quest by Doris Lessing which takes place on South African farmlands on the cusp of WWII. Maybe it looked something like this? via Smithsonian Photography Initiative

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