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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…

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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…

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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…

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“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 →

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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…

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