#cockade

[chic-a-gigot]

La Mode illustrée, no. 40, 3 octobre 1886, Paris. Robe en soie unie et lainage rayé. Ville de Paris / Bibliothèque Forney

Jupe courte, plissée tout autour, faite en faille prune de Monsieur. Tunique et corsage en lainage de même teinte à rayures de peluche. Cocardes de ruban assorti sur chaque côté de la tunique ouverte.

Dress in plain silk and striped wool

Short skirt, pleated all around, made in prune de Monsieur faille. Woolen tunic and bodice of the same color with plush stripes. Matching ribbon cockades on each side of the open tunic.

#La Mode illustrée #19th century #1800s #1880s #1886 #periodical #fashion #fashion plate #description #Forney #dress #silk #wool #stripes #bustle #faille #prune #cockade

[floweriiskies]

Some of the photos I didn’t use for my banner =)

#lesmis #les miserables #photography #fountainpen #cockade #tumblr banner

[scottpartridge]

Another chromatic arrangement of @artomat blocks

#rainbow #spoonbill #owls #wrens #red cockaded woodpecker #ovenbird #cattle egret #redstart #artomat

[birdstudies]

July 3, 2023 - Red-cockaded Woodpecker (Dryobates borealis) Requested by: @didaodi These woodpeckers live in pine forests with open understories in the southeastern United States. Foraging in groups, they eat arthropods and their larvae and eggs, as well as seeds and fruit. Males forage on the upper trunks and branches of trees and females forage on the trunks below the branches. Breeding cooperatively, they excavate several cavities in live pine trees with wood softened by red heart fungus and create holes around the entrances that drip sap to deter crawling predators. Family groups of two to five, including a breeding pair and several young male helpers, incubate the eggs and care for the chicks in one of the cavities. They are classified as Near Threatened by the IUCN due to a large population decline from habitat loss, though recent conservation efforts have helped them recover in some parts of their range.

#red-cockaded woodpecker #woodpecker #dryobates borealis #bird #birds #illustration #art #woodland #requests #birblr art

[anotherhumaninthisworld]

Last Saturday, madame Robert, wife of a man of letters and known patriot, and she herself the author of several works, passing through Quai Théatins, was accosted by three very elegant little men that told her to put down the three color cockade that this lady had tied to her hat. She refuses. These men follow her, repeating their insolent demands. You can take my life, but you cannot force me to put away my cockade, Madame Robert responded. Still followed and insulted, she took out a small knife and threatened her agressors. One of them points a dagger against her breast, she wards off the blow with a gravure roll (rouleau de gravures) that she held in her hand. Another assassin snatches her hat from her. A fourth arrives, and, taking the braves by the arm, tells them: Scatterbrains, don't go and act like Lambesc; you know that’s not for today. And these cutters, worthy game of the lower court of the Tuileries, fled when they saw some people approaching who were going to avenge their outrages. Thermomètre du Jour, number 222, August 9 1792

In vain did madame Robert ask for news of her husband, no one gave her any. She thought he was marching with the faubourg. “Yes,” she said to me, “if he perishes I will not survive him! But this Danton who remains in his bed, he, the rallying point, if my husband perishes I will be the woman to stab him!” Her eyes were rolling. From that moment on I never left her side. What did I know what could happen? To know what she was capable of…  Lucile Desmoulins describing her activities during the night of the Insurrection of August 10 (1792)

OK, now I have a much better appreciation for why Lucile took that threat so seriously…

#louise de kéralio #lucile desmoulins #georges danton #jeez louise #you may take my life but you’ll never take MY COCKADE! #also louise: faints as soon as she hears a canon being fired #frev

[clove-pinks]

why are the birds French

#birds #love how they just put extra rings on the cockade of france #red white and blue problems #never mind the AI part

[anonymousboxcar]

TTTE AU: Cockade the Actor

Recently, I’ve been playing around with an au!Diesel 10 that fits into a more RWS-type world. Known as D810, or Cockade, he isn’t villainous or bigoted against steam engines. This is in part because he noticed a growing disdain for diesel-hydraulics such as him, thus realizing he wasn’t in too dissimilar of a boat.

Where most of his class didn’t survive, Cockade did. He was a warm, affable engine who endeared himself to many people. He was also something many of his siblings weren’t: a minor celebrity.

Ever since a background appearance in a local commercial, Cockade wanted to be an actor. He pushed to appear in more commercials, instructional tapes, and TV episodes B.R. used to drum up good PR. These amounted to only several seconds of screen time apiece, but he loved it. He loved becoming a character, embodying part of a story. He thought it could help him work toward the silver screen.

And eagle-eyed rail fans recognized him in all his roles. He developed a small following that advocated on his behalf, working to get him — and at his urging, as many of his siblings as possible — preserved.

He never lost his passion for acting, nor his dream of a “big break.” So when the producers of a project called Thomas & The Magic Railroad came knocking, he all but threw himself at them.

His heritage railway loaned him out to the producers, who gave him his character’s — Diesel 10’s — livery and excavator claw. His enthusiasm and flair for dramatics proved infectious on set. He had only one serious hiccup: he tried method acting.

He didn’t mean any harm by it. He only wanted to try out a new technique; he wanted his first ever film performance to be his best and most convincing. But for all his good intentions, acting like his villainous character 24/7 got on everyone’s nerves.

Thomas, playing himself in the film, got fed up. “Do you want to ‘method act’ some bent buffers, too? I can help you with that.”

Cockade stared at him. “What?”

“The script calls for it, doesn’t it?”

“But that’s — oh. Ohhh.”

It was the wake-up call Cockade needed. Embarrassed, he apologized for his behavior and saved his acting for the cameras.

While still somewhat miffed at first, Thomas softened after Cockade helped him through some stage fright without any judgement. Cockade respected Thomas’ tenacity and sense of responsibility in turn. The two had a similar sense of humor, making each other laugh between takes and teasing the others.

He and Thomas also became close to Sarah, a recent custom-built engine cast as Lady. She gave as good as she got with their teasing, while also becoming interested in the technical aspects of film production and writing. Her perspective on something in the script was always fresh and helpful (even if it was critical).

The engines playing Splatter and Dodge — who didn’t have names of their own, and liked their characters’ names enough to adopt them — came out of their shells at everyone’s encouragement. They loved to ad-lib scenes with Cockade, and they contemplated going into improv comedy once their work was done with TATMR.

A good time was had by all. Cockade felt very satisfied with himself and the overall production, delighting in having so many new friends and connections in show business.

And then the film bombed at the box office.

These days, Cockade says it was a valuable lesson: there’s a lot of moving parts to a film production, and nothing can be perfect. You can only do your best with the part you have. What matters is that you had fun and you gained more experience.

It took him some time to absorb this lesson, though. He wondered if he could’ve done something more, if he could’ve helped. He feared this was the end of his career.

“I’ve been working towards this my entire life,” he said late one night. “I had plan, a vision, of my career. This was my chance at the big time. And now that I’ve had a taste of it, it’s all up in smoke.”

Sarah nudged him. “You read the books, yeah? Look at how many times Mr. Number One over there messed up. He’s still doing alright.”

Thomas only rolled his eyes a little. “My foul-ups did me a world of good, actually. I wouldn’t be famous if those stories didn’t get out.”

“Besides, so what if that’s it for your career or whatever?” Splatter asked. “You’ve been at the bottom.”

“S’not so bad down there. You’ll have us, for one,” Dodge said, grinning. “And if you went up that incline before, you can do it again.”

“…I can,” Cockade said after a pause. “Thanks to all of you.”

In the end, lots of people still liked his performance as Diesel 10. At his request, his heritage railway put him back into D10’s livery for “Day Out With Thomas” events. He auditioned and got to act in other, smaller productions. While typecast as a villain for some time, he considered that a small price to keep doing what he loved.

He still visits Sodor every now and then, both as himself and as Diesel 10. Thomas is always happy to see him. They often chat about how Sarah’s doing as a railway consultant in television writing. Other times, they listen together to Splatter & Dodge’s latest improv comedy podcast released online.

Cockade’s big break didn’t go as he imagined it, but that’s alright. He doesn’t need the glitz and glamour of Hollywood anymore to have a fulfilling career. To him, the fulfillment comes from the wonderful people he meets along the way.

“And failure is never forever,” he tells people, smiling. “It’s always an opportunity — if you let it be one.”

#ttte #rws #ttte diesel 10 #d810 cockade #b.r. d810 #ttte thomas #ttte lady #ttte au #rws au #my aus #ttte splodge #ttte splatter #ttte dodge #ttte d10 #my au #tatmr #tatmr au

[digitalfashionmuseum]

Oil Painting, ca. 1795, French.

Portraying a woman in a green silk dress, and a man in a dark blue coat and buff waistcoat.

Christie’s.

#cockade #1795 #1790s #1790s painting #Christie’s #1790s france #1790s dress

[chic-a-gigot]

La Mode illustrée, no. 39, 28 septembre 1873, Paris. Toilettes de Mme Fladry, rue Richer, 43. Chapeaux de Mme Aubert, 34 r. de la Victoire. Ville de Paris / Bibliothèque Forney

Description de toilettes:

Robe en faye verte, de deux tons. Le jupon est fait avec la teinte relativement foncée et garni d'un très-haut volant plissé, surmonté d'une double ruche également plissée; en outre, le volant est traversé par des quilles, garnies de dentelle russe (blanche). La robe est de teinte claire, ouverte par devant, garnie sur son bord inférieur d'un volant froncé, posé à tête, ayant cinq centimètres de hauteur. A vingt centimètres de distance, se trouve une garniture composée de trois biais, ornés de distance en distance dé cocardes composées de cinq coques et d'une petite coque centrale. Au-dessus du dernier biais, se trouve une dentelle russe posée debout. Corsage à basques (teinte claire), ouvert sur un gilet (teinte foncée).

Dress in green faye, two tones. The petticoat is made with a relatively dark tint and trimmed with a very high pleated frill, surmounted by a double pleated frill; in addition, the flounce is crossed by quilles, trimmed with Russian (white) lace. The dress is light in color, open in front, trimmed on its lower edge with a gathered flounce, placed at the head, five centimeters high. Twenty centimeters away, there is a trim made up of three biases, adorned at intervals with cockades made up of five coques and a small central coque. Above the last bias is a Russian lace standing upright. Basque bodice (light shade), open over a waistcoat (dark shade).

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Petite fille de dix ans. Jupon en mousseline de laine mauve, entièrement plissé. Polonaise en mousseline de laine mauve, avec pastilles blanches, garnie d'une grosse guipure blanche.

Dress for a ten-year-old girl. Mauve wool muslin petticoat, fully pleated. Polonaise in mauve wool muslin, with white dots, trimmed with a large white guipure.

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Robe en faye de deux tons bois. Le jupon est garni en tablier de trois volants surmontés de cinq bouillonnés de teinte foncée; le reste du jupon est de teinte claire, et la garniture (volants et ruches) simule une seconde robe. Gilet foncé, casaque claire, avec grand col foncé.

Faye dress in two wood tones. The petticoat is trimmed like an apron with three ruffles topped with five dark tinted bubbles; the rest of the petticoat is light-coloured, and the trim (ruffles and frills) simulates a second dress. Dark waistcoat, light coat, with large dark collar.

#La Mode illustrée #19th century #1800s #1870s #1873 #periodical #fashion #fashion plate #color #retouch #description #Forney #dress #toilette #ensemble #faye #lace #bustle #ruffles #cockade #Fladry #Aubert

[scottpartridge]

A new batch of Art-O-Mat blocks includes a Japanese Scops Owl and meny others.

#art o mat #japanese scops owl #hummingbirds #red cockaded woodpecker #ivory billed woodpecker #chickadee #cerulean warbler #lots of birds

[pazzesco]

🎨 Max Ackerman

Max Ackerman - Rotation Red - 1966

Max Ackerman - Yellow Rotation - 1967

Max Ackerman - Silhouettes Of Lines - 1968

Max Ackerman - Violet Center - 1968

Max Ackerman - Three Red Signals - 1968

Max Ackerman - Cockades - 1968

Max Ackerman - Garden Of Hesperides -1968

Max Ackermann (5 October 1887 – 14 November 1975) was a German painter and graphic artist of abstract works and representational art.

#art #paintings #max ackerman #silhouettes #lines #rotation #Red Signals #60's #garden of hesperides #cockades #violet #abstract

[bumblebeeappletree]

One of the most inspiring conservation stories in American history is playing out on, of all places, a live-fire training ground at Ft. Liberty Army base in North Carolina. There, an improbable alliance is giving a special bird—the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker (RCW)—a new lease on life. After a clash between U.S. Fish and Wildlife and the U.S. Army revealed that low-grade forest fires sparked by artillery and tracers inadvertently created excellent woodpecker habitat, the two sides joined forces to monitor and protect the birds on the base. Landowners on nearby properties are joining the effort—putting aside mutual suspicions and using fire to save the RCW and ignite a passion for wildlife.

#Nature on PBS #wild hope #solarpunk #red-cockaded woodpecker #woodpecker #USA #military #Ft. Liberty Army #north carolina #endangered species #native wildlife #wildfire #controlled burns #Youtube #butterfly

[radiofreederry]

Found a guy

#lol at having a Federalist Party cockade avatar #you’re not supposed to say it out loud!