frogtrenchcoat

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Knitted Shirt

1650s-1690s

Norway

Nasjonalmuseet (Inventory no.:OK-08800)

#fabric cool

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this does not apply if you wear exclusively leggings. Those things tear all the time you need like a million on standby

#6+ even not counting shorts or anything. though like a couple of these r ripped to all hell so they basically function as shorts #the thing is they just gather up over the years #i have 2 pairs of black jeans i got like 2 years? ago #1 white pair of pants i got a couple years b4 that #and like 4 pants i got 6+ years ago (yes i did grow out of them but i just made them bigger #/i don't even wear them anymore i just haven't gotten around to deciding whether i wanna make them in2 something i would wear or what) #and 1 pair of pants that i got like last year from my bf bc he didn't want them/they didn't fit him

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#damn i never realized my great grandma made me a member of the burgeoisie when she crossstitched me those pillows #might as well have given me a 30 000€ ton of metal

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the slaughter, the web, the lonely, the desolation!

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#the magnus archives #art to love

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the hunt, the vast, the buried, the stranger, the spiral, the corruption, the flesh!

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#the magnus archives #art to love

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When I was younger and researching the autism diagnosis criteria and symptoms, I thought “oh I couldn’t POSSIBLY be autistic.” Because when I read “takes everything literally” I thought it literally meant EVERYTHING and I was like “I don’t take EVERYTHING literally, just most things!” And I just realized the other day that it didn’t actually mean EVERYTHING and that was an overstatement.

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Watching the “you will excel at what you measure” trap devour basic moral practice in real time is fascinating in a terrible kind of way

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I rly hate the Satanic Panic & the moral panic surrounding violence in video games in the 90s, coz it's now impossible to talk about the social implications of violent video games in a realistic sense.

No, violence in video games does not create serial killers in the way most people imagine it would.

However, it's very important to notice how after 9/11, a lot of violent video games pivoted their content from silly gratuitous cartoon gore to more realistic military shooters set in the Levant from a US American lens. It's also important to notice the connection of these games & their toxic online multi-player voice chats to Gamer Gate in 2014.

It's obviously not as black & white as it was presented in the 80s & 90s, I dont think everyone who played early Call of Duty games is a white supremacist who wants to join the military to kill people in the middle east, but I think it's dangerous to pretend like video games or any media can't have an impact on the way people think about violence.

I think what makes all the difference here is how that violence is portrayed, what the message behind it is, what the motives are behind the people who crafted that message, who the victims of that violence are, how they are portrayed & the greater cultural context that surrounds it.

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i think the laziest motherfucker alive should receive everything a person could need

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*makes u pink* @thyfleshc0nsumed

#waow...... #art to love

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i already have a job and it's called keeping myself alive. why do i have to be employed on top of that

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“Wear It On Your Sleeve”, Hand embroidery on cotton, Kim Craig, October 2022

#wow #fabric cool #hm hm hmm #this is very cool i will proceed to think of this for the rest of time thank you

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im rly back in my black sabbath era recently

the 2nd pic is me sneezing i think it's silly & fun

this shirt gives me such gender euphoria i love this shirt & i love top surgery

#transgender #transsexual #punk #gnc #feminine men #okay im being silly atp i don't need 2 tag my shit if i can't think of any tags it's not important #also like fuck i do kinda rly look like my sibling w my hair long & in a black band tshirt that's so fucked up #the frogs in physical reality

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neurotypicals will be like "you can't self diagnose" and then diagnose everyone they dislike as a narcissist

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All repairs have been made. All ends have been trimmed. The shawl has been dragged through a ring.

This is a mostly accurate reproduction of an 1880s-1910s Shetland lace ring shawl.

I used Jamieson and Smith Shetland Supreme 1ply in natural white. This yarn was developed with Shetland Museum and Archives as part of the Shetland Fine Lace Project, and is a 100% Shetland wool reproduction of the original handspuns used.

For additional historical accuracy, I also had borderline severe anemia for this entire project without knowing what was wrong with me.

Dimensions are 5 foot 8 inches square.

Detail shots:

Bonus slow-mo gif of it in motion. You can kind of get a feel for how it tries to velcro to itself at the very end (the edging points are flipped up and stuck) which is the main reason I didn't try other methods of capturing the drape capabilities. You'll have to take my word for it that it's super drapey.

Ring shawls got their name from the fact that one of the ways to prove the authenticity and quality was to pull it through a wedding ring--provided, of course, that the diameter of the ring was half an inch or less.

I do not have wedding rings.

I have goth rings.

I dragged it through a size 5 (approx 1/2 inch diameter) coffin ring. I do not recommend this.

There is some BBC archive footage on YouTube of a reporter interviewing two lace knitters who demonstrate this at the end of the video. The reporter stated the shawl being used for this demonstration is 27 square feet.

Mine is a little over 32 square feet.

This was made particularly challenging by the fact I could NOT block it at max tension--the cotton thread that strings it up to the blocking frame sawed through part of the edging, and I had to stop at the dimensions I had. As a result, the density of this fabric is thicker than it would have been otherwise.

But I did it and I retain the bragging rights forever.

@battleblaze I'm going to beat you to the punch this time and tag @knottybliss myself. Thank you for the object lesson in "don't post pics when still in the pits of stress over blocking going horrifically wrong" lmao

@the-fibre-stuff Thanks! I made the frame, too! I think the skew in that very hasty photo is largely the angle--there's just not enough space without moving very heavy furniture to get a good head-on angle. But my crochet cotton DID saw through an edging point while I was trying to make sure that it was all perfectly even (and it's hard to get my frame to stay square) so I think there is a skew, but hey, if I'm the only one that knows, I'm chill. Glad to hear that it passes the galloping horse test, in any case.

@ghostrepeater I'll never tell. You can't make me.

@invisiblefoxfire I still think you said it best: This thing is determined to simply not exist at all, but my will is superior.

And finally (maybe) @lacewise as predicted, now that the finishing details have been completed, better pictures taken, I AM proud. Exhausted. But proud. It remains to be seen how often I allow this thing to leave the house.

Everyone else that complemented my very hasty, zero contrast, probably super eye-strainy "please send help and/or booze" quick pic--thank you. I legit never post anything, I truly am a habitual lurker. I've only ever gotten that many notes on boop day. I'd tag some more mutuals, but honestly, you're seeing it in more than one place.

#oh hey i've made a ring shawl b4 #the estonian version: haapsalu sall #fabric cool