NO VOTES

Pretty design for an ugly message. These stamps represent anti-suffrage for women sentiment. The stamps were produced by the Maine Association Opposed to Suffrage for Women, circe 1918. Not cool Maine! via Maine Memory  

MIND WEAVERS

I’ve got weaving on my mind. Wooden weaving combs made by Hopi (most gorgeous tool ever), assorted commercial dyed cotton, jar of goat hair for weaving, grass overshoe-twined weaving made by Unaliqmiut Eskimos, woven grass bracelet from Uganda and twined weaving basket made by Tlingit in the Western Arctic. Side note: New Friends have been working like crazy [...]

LYNDA BENGLIS

Y E S . Artist Lynda Benglis painting a floor with 40 gallons of bright latex and pigments at the University of Rhode Island. 1969 via LIFE

EVELYN ROTH

If you like 1970s textiles and Canadians, these vids are a must see. Evelyn recycled 110 sweaters into an Environment for Living, and crocheted discarded video tape into car cozies to costumes. She also developed Family Sweater, which is basically a giant snuggie for family and friends. Note : Her knitting needles are made from [...]

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Lambda looking good. Gay rights demonstration, Albany, New York, 1971 photographs by Diana Davies via NYPL

SOX & POMO

Soft, Cozy, Warm—basketry socks from the Artic! And their California-made mates, feathery Pomo basket bowls. The name Pomo derives from a conflation of the Pomo words [pʰoːmoː] and [pʰoʔmaʔ]. It originally meant “those who live at red earth hole” … (not hip abbr. for Post Modernism) via Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture at [...]

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