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John Alexander, Jellyfish, n.d.

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Ukrainian hut from the region of Podilia, decorated with traditional wall paintings. Exhibition by the Ethnographic Complex "Ukrainian Village".

"Every spring our mom, Hanna Ivanivna, would send us to the mine to gather hardened clay. In our village it had many different colors and people from Ozaryntsi, Voyevidchyntsi, Skazyntsi, would come to us for clay for painting. When the paint was ready, that is crushed, ground and soaked, my mom began to work. She painted doves, periwinkles, duckweed, some kind of peculiar red flowers, vases in pots outside between the windows. Mom gave me a task for the day and I meticulously painted petals and lines ..."

— Anastasia Naluzhna, born in Karpivka, Mohyliv-Podilskyi Raion.

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Instagram credit: fieldnotesbyfi

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Instagram credit: __suzannah

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the moon in paintings. x

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Traditional Ukrainian embroidery from Poltava Oblast'

Satin stitch, "shtapivka" stitch

Satin stitch, cross stitch

Cross stitch, "shtapivka" stitch

Cross stitch

Nechyporenko, Serhiy. Ukrainian Emboidery, 2010.

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‘A frosty start to our farming day’

Source

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car culture advertising...

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The 11th century Round Tower of Glendalough, a monastery founded in the 6th century in the Wicklow Mountains, Ireland.

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“Forest Sampler” - machine quilted paper, hand embroidery, paper sculpture, beading.  Displayed in an antique printer’s tray. by Lost Lake Studio

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Playing Cards ca. 1475–80

South Netherlandish

The Cloisters set of fifty-two cards constitutes the only known complete deck of illuminated ordinary playing cards (as opposed to tarot cards) from the fifteenth century. There are four suits, each consisting of a king, queen, knave, and ten pip cards. The suit symbols, based on equipment associated with the hunt, are hunting horns, dog collars, hound tethers, and game nooses. The value of the pip cards is indicated by appropriate repetitions of the suit symbol.

The figures, which appear to be based on Franco-Flemish models, were drawn in a bold, free, and engaging, if somewhat unrefined, hand. Their exaggerated and sometimes anachronistic costumes suggest a lampoon of extravagant Burgundian court fashions. Although some period card games are named, it is not known how they were played. Almost all card games did, however, involve some form of gambling. The condition of the set indicates that the cards were hardly used, if at all. It is possible that they were conceived as a collector’s curiosity rather than a deck for play.

Source: The Met Museum

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There are over 33 million people affected by floods in Pakistan with at least 1000 people killed and over 180,000 people displaced. Please, if you are able to, donate to help and if you’re not able to donate, please reblog this.

https://islamic-relief.org/appeals/pakistan-floods-appeal/ (Has a lot of information about the floods and is also a trusted place you can donate to)

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rainy days in rome are somehow making me so nostalgic

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Thomas Jefferson survives.

- John Adams

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