Author Archives: Art for Housewives
Klerksdorp spheres
Originally posted on Archaeological Fantasies:
I’ve seen this article several times now, and I meant to address it the first time, but then I got distracted by something shinny…er I mean work? Either way, the biggest reason I let it go was that I wasn’t terribly concerned about…
Huipil
Originally posted on quetzallicastro:
Since the first hands that wove traditional Mexican clothing, a Huipil (pronounced wee-pil) in Nahautl language, is made of soft cotton, (with a linen feel), depicts a story which then trancends to indigenous textiles; both for…
Photographer Graciela Iturbide: Capturing the Spirit
Originally posted on Broad Strokes: The National Museum of Women in the Arts' Blog:
Mexican artist Graciela Iturbide is considered on of the most important and influential Latin American photographers of the past four decades. Her oeuvre is rich in…
“Do not let your adorning be external”…
Below, reblog’d article so interesting….. manuscripts recycled for statue clothing via the blog (Roughly) Daily: (Roughly) Daily In 2011, textile conservators discovered fragments of medieval manuscripts lining the hems of dresses at the Cistercian convent of Wienhausen in Northern Germany. … Continue reading
Herbal Demon Repellent. No, really!
Originally posted on Lilith's Apothecary Herbal Body Care:
A friend recently passed along a fabulous blog called BibliOdyssey, as well as a post with illustrated manuscript belonging to a 15th c. herbal text titled the Codex Sloane 4016. Like…



