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HOO BOYYY here's more of the rest of the gang fellas!! I love how different their dynamic and appearance is in comparison to the Brit-Trio LEL!!

Heres a few more paint sample pieces! 🩷

Atp I don't want revenge for Psyche or Medea or whoever, I just want them to all DIE and rot. If Eros gets to do whatever he wants and live happily ever after so be it. If Psyche is destined to be miserable for the rest of her life just because shes "God's beloved" so be it! This story has me so fed up I'm praying on its terminal downfall somebody take it down.

Needle felting, traditional and stumpwork embroidery, about 1/3 of Van Gogh's "Irises." The needle felted Monet I did didn't make it into the show, but this one did. "They Were Violet."

They have a normal bed now but old habits die hard

Mr Toad is a goddamn idiot

+A very necessary addition

(writing on bottom: ‘Please get back to me quickly; this is somewhat urgent’)

you just can’t stand being weaker than i am

hello gothic lit tumblr

Cherry Creek Town Map for my new YA cosmic horror comic set in 1990s New England. Trying to go for the vintage style maps that a middle school cryptid hunter would have on their case wall with whole spools of red yarn connecting newspaper cutouts and blurry photos of dark figures in the forest

Let me know what you think

I have some free time… Let’s go over aemilia ars vs punto in aria vs reticella/reticello.

Important disclaimer: I am not a formally trained fashion historian and people REALLY don’t like to discuss this nomenclature, because it’s weird. I did what I could.

Okay, so, reticella was the direct precursor to needle lace (well… so was nalbinding, knotted lace, and netting, but different research topic for different day) and is a form of cutwork (carefully removing threads in fabric and then replacing them with decorative stitching instead) that got more and more ornamental and eventually evolved into punto in aria (first unknotted needle lace) which is entirely made by hand. However… sometimes, ‘punto in aria’ is used to refer specifically to non-geometric punto in aria designs (otherwise clumped together as ‘later’ punto in aria) that generally have more support, but still no true ground. When people are making that distinction, true needle lace that is solely geometric is also referred to as ‘reticella’. ‘Reticello’ is just a spelling variation on ‘reticella’ but I have seen it both ways.

While it’s possible to find some form of geometric needle lace/reticella/‘early’ punto in aria being made at most periods after the 17th century, the method was lost several times and had to be relearned (rich people are cheap, the upper middle class isn’t much better). (Needle lace regularly went in and out of fashion and the styles changed regularly based on region.) The only time geometrical needle lace really made a resurgence in fashionable circles was late into the 19th century, when the method was learned and distributed once again.

Because it was often worked in cotton, whereas the original was worked in linen (yes it was because of sharecropping and enslavement) and no one could be *absolutely sure* it was worked the same way as the original (and to sell to people as both ‘new’ and ‘traditional’) it was (re)named aemilia ars. Aemilia Ars was name of the Italian society that repopularized this style. The patterns they used are often later punto in aria designs (the ones that are less geometrical). So that’s why this needle lace can go by several names, based on my research and understanding.

I have no idea if working it in linen (which I do) or silk changes the nomenclature. (I don’t think so, but this is already confusing.) I’ve seen it several different ways and I don’t think there is a set definition anymore, but feel free to correct me if you know more!

And that’s how a wide swath of needle lace and cutwork embroidery is considered the same (unless it isn’t).

(It’s one of the few subsets of needle lace that isn’t named after where the tradition and stitches originated.)