They Used To Make Smackable Technology. You Used To Be Able To Hit Your Tv When It Didn't Work Good.

I love it so muchhhhh💕

La Mode nationale, no. 6, 13 février 1897, Paris. No. 10. — Dessus de corsage. Bibliothèque nationale de France

No. 10. — Dessus de corsage en velours vieux bleu entouré par un entre-deux en guipure et s'allongeant jusqu'au bas de la taille où il se termine par un nœud; autour volant de dentelle formant jockeys sur les manches.

No. 10. — Top of the bodice in old blue velvet surrounded by a guipure insert and extending to the bottom of the waist where it ends with a bow; around lace flounce forming jockeys on the sleeves.

Apparently in China peach wood (Along with the rest of the plant) is believed to have properties that repel evil spirits, a little similar to silver in European legends or iron for both European fae and West Asian/Middle eastern Jinn. Taoists sometimes keep swords made of peach wood because of this. This made me realize something. If you took a peach wood stick, and attached studs to it of both silver and iron you'd end up with a club or staff (or mace, flail etc.) that would have the weaknesses of many kinds of supernatural creatures while still retaining effectiveness as a normal weapon (peach is a hardwood and silver's poor edge retention doesn't matter for studs). You could even keep adding new stud materials to get something ridiculous that affects over 120 catalogued folkloric monsters. Since you just need a few little studs you could even get some really expensive materials like meteoric iron (a thumb tip sized meteorite can still cost like 10-20 bucks I think). I could somewhat feasibly make a weapon that affects every monster ever thought to walk the earth, from vampires and werewolves to jinn and jiangshi and even mankind.

dress by 炭团洋服社

Day Dress

c. 1907

Canadian Museum of History

Damn girlie, reblogging cause those dresses are too pretty <3

Especially the skirt proportions cause I can’t figure it out ;-;

Does anyone who has access to Chinese websites could help me find a pattern for a warring states period hanfu? I would really appreciate it <3 <3 <3

Etruscan Bronze Helmet in the Shape of a Wolf’s Head 6th-5th centuries BCE.

Spent two days hand sewing an accurate zhuyao only to give up trying to make it close properly and putting a zipper at the side

One thing they don’t tell you about sewing is that it is actually ironing

Does anyone who has access to Chinese websites could help me find a pattern for a warring states period hanfu? I would really appreciate it <3 <3 <3