#voided velvet

[romanov-ramblings]

Voided velvet upholstery used for the Maple Living-Room of Her Majesty at the Alexander Palace in Tsarskoe Selo

In the Maple Living-Room of Her Majesty, a variety of textiles were used to decorate the Empress’s informal reception-room which was made up of forty pieces of built-in and free-standing furniture. Among these various chairs, tables, sofas, etc. were a folding-screen with leaded-glass inserts, small stools or benches with curved arm rests and an upholstered wingback chair which was built in the same shape as the one from the Lilac Cabinet of Her Majesty.  In the collection of GMZ Tsarskoe Selo, there are pieces of these textiles which were cut from the furniture by the last chief curator of the Palace-Museum, Anatoly M. Kuchumov to preserve the textiles used, in the event a restoration were to happen as was hoped for. However this did not happen, and what had been left of the Maple Living-Room was stripped by the early 1950′s and a load-bearing wall was placed in the middle of the four windows, effectively making two exhibition halls. Today, the post-war configuration has been removed and the room faithfully reconstructed to how it looked prior to the Second World War. One of the textiles in particular, a voided velvet ground of green with a stylised, blue and green peacock feather motif was used to decorate several pieces of furniture - a wingback chair, folding-screen, curved benches, and seat cushions for the seats of some of the wooden armchairs - all of which was designed and executed by the firm of F.F. Meltser & Co. - the Court Decorator being R.F. Meltser.  Currently, furniture is still in the production stage for the Maple Living-Room by the Tsarskoselskaya Restoration Workshop, and in the future the room will be filled with more pieces until the stage for this room is completed.  ________________________________________________________________ Please enjoy these images, and If you'd like to share them elsewhere, you can download them yourself and if you do so, PLEASE remember to credit the institution/news source/author/photographer - in this case Gosfond, and GMZ Tsarskoe Selo, Mr. Newman appropriately! Thank-you.   ________________________________________________________________ Photographs:

1. Remnant of the voided velvet used for upholstering furniture. This piece of textile is in the collection of GMZ Tsarskoe Selo (digitised via Gosfond). 2. An upholstered stool/bench from the furniture suite of the Maple Living-Room. Manufactured by the firm of F.F. Meltser & Co. Photograph from “Antiques, Objects of Art and Collectibles,” Circa. 2004. 3. An overstuffed, wingback chair from the furniture suite of the Maple Living-Room. Manufactured by the firm of F.F. Meltser & Co. Photograph from “Antiques, Objects of Art and Collectibles,” Circa. 2004. 4. Cropped detail of a photograph of the Maple Living-Room taken in 1928, by American photographer, “Mr. Newman” showing the folding-screen. Sources:

Gosfond (State Museum Catalogue of the Museum Fund of Russia) GMZ Tsarskoe Selo (Tsarskoe Selo State Museum Reserve) "Antiques, Objects of Art and Collectibles," Circa. 2004. Mr. Newman, Photographer. Circa. 1928. Link of courtesy:   www.goskatalog.ru https://antiqueland.ru/articles/1507/

#alexander palace #gmz tsarskoe selo #tsarskoe selo #gosfond #romanov #imperial russia #voided velvet #velvet #textile #maple room #russian archival material #empress alexandra feodorovna #art nouveau #jugendstil #style moderne #furniture

[whalesharkstho]

caved and drew the silly spaghetti guys from the new trolls movie

#velvet trolls #veneer trolls #velvet and veneer #trolls 3 #trolls band together #dreamworks trolls #trolls fanart #yeah yeah make fun of me in the comments just WAIT till i post the rest of my trolls art #sharky’s art tag #ANYWAYS #off i go into the void again

[soepwashere]

Good day, I offer a Velvet and Veneer doodle dump

#dreamworks trolls #trolls band together #trolls 3 #trolls fanart #velvet and veneer #trolls velvet #trolls veneer #dreamworks trolls stuff #soep art #this was mostly me figuring out how to draw them LOL #they’re actually pretty fun to draw #which is good because I have ideas :> #also some different outfits and hair styles for them #anywho back to the void i goooooo

[looxxi]

hey hi howdy there friends i know we're having fun making ai covers of kpop idols covering other songs but maybe consider not doing that because because while it seems very fun and for fandom and hunky dory, you're also training ai to sound like your favorite idol without their consent :-)

#the ai covers give RANCID vibes :-) #artists screaming about the dangers and ethics of ai use into the void #kpop #ai #ai generated #ai kpop covers #if you love an artist dont train an ai based on their art <3 #stray kids #nct #blackpink #text post #bts #enhypen #txt #tomorrow x tomorrow #aespa #red velvet #exo #shinee #twice #nmixx #le sserafim #newjeans #ive #seventeen #stayc #got7

[nero-draco]

#fate grand order #fgo jp #waver velvet #daybit sem void #gray #mangacap

[gynii]

can I get an ourpled...?

totally not late ahahahahah, anyway thank you for the vote! here's an ourpled

#campaign bribes #asks i guess #velvet-red-void #purpled fanart #mcyt #gynii art #gonna go through all the reqs now :D

[blaiddraws]

OH BY THE WAY. finally got around to painting these two tiny lads the other day (after about a whole entire year,,,)

i still need Red paint so i can Finish the void cat kitty one (red eye-lights). AND also paint my undyne and alphys dragon figurines!! which i had also made.

also, size comparisons:

#undertale #gaster #w. d. gaster #mystery man #figurine #physical media #velvet bones #Kitty #void cat kitty

[citruslllad]

great minds think alike by putting alpharad into the qsmp

GREAT MINDS THINK ALIKE BY PUTTING ALPHARAD INTO THE QSMP 🤝🤝🤝

#realistically i don't even want him in it i just want to Imagine Scenarios <3 #asks #velvet red void #qsmp + alpharad au

[copepods]

i need to make everything about him (could you draw cpurpled :D)

here he is ^_^

[id: a drawing of c!purpled from his head to his shoulders. he has large, butterfly-shaped ears, and four axolotl-like antennae. he's frowning. end id]

#purpled #mcyt #dsmp #art #fish makes art #asks #velvet-red-void

[mecharose]

me: is it cringe to buy clothes just bc its a reference to ur OC

also me: just bought a bear sweater as a reference to a fnaf meme

#*points to any bear* IS THAT FREDDY FAZBEAR? HAR HAR HAR HAR #anyway theres a sweater w eyeballs all over it and a velvet night sky embroidered dress that im like...... RCU core #liv shouts into the void #fnaf

[apollos-boyfriend]

btw did you see alpharads newest insta story. i think you should

I DID. the three of them look so fucking good <333

#muse talk #velvet-red-void #funny story about that actually #i know someone who’s at that party LMAO #they better be networking their ass off there i s2g #get ur in king

[falled-over]

downloading films we only own on dvd and ones from my wishlist for my stay abroad this is like e sex

#enter the void and morvern callar (watched these when i was 16. morv is so good mutuals you'd love it) #and the farewell and the velvet vampire. are my gambles thus far #i have a billion movies i intend to see but a start is a start

[voidlandscape]

From Persona 4

#void #persona 4 #margaret persona #velvet room

[stellomiacis]

May I offer you some of my ocs in these trying times

#I’ve been trying to add a background to almost everything I draw as of recent. and let me tell you #it’s SO fun and also rewarding :) no more void backgrounds for me #velvet’s art #velvet’s ocs #oc archipelago #oc Wolf-Rayet (sona) #oc winter #furry #fursona #furryart #furry art

[nancywheeeler]

i really do feel i missed my calling as a gothic heroine

#i'd willfully ignore every red flag just to wander around a big old estate in the middle of nowhere barefoot in my crimson velvet robe #like yes my darling your mysteriously-vanished first wife does sound like a nightmare #i bet she did goad you into killing her #this is (mostly) a joke but also the bad feminist in me does jump out whenever i'm consuming anything gothic #i think that's why a lot of the more recent gothic novels just do not do it for me #i don't want the genre 'reclaimed' i don't want the heroine to girlboss her way out i don't want the ghosts put to rest #i want it to stay toxic. a touch horrifying. #if people are saying 'uhmm actually you shouldn't be calling this romantic' that's how you know it's gonna be good #a shout into the void

[solace-cove-collective]

Welcome To The Abyss!

We're The Aurora's Wanderers. We collectively go by Solace or Canary. We collectively use any pronouns. We're a white, queer system.

We're interested in ULTRAKILL, FAITH, OMORI, The Mandela Catalogue, The Magnus Archives, and Minecraft glitches/bugs/exploits.

Our Non-media interests include space, fae folklore, the deep sea, birds, insects, and philosophy.

DNI: Basic DNI, Anti-Endo, Rad Queer, Bigots in General, Anti mspec, thinks aspec people arent queer, anti xenogender / neopronoun users.

Our Frequent Fronters Include:

The Hollow Knight (they/it)

Nikola (she/they/it)

Epoch (he/they/omen)

Velvet (it/gear/clock/gold)

Alex (he/him or she/her)

Alice (she/it)

Pearl / Eve / Hound (she/they/moon/red)

Cobalt (she/they/it/ae)

Wraith (he/she/they)

Wren (they/thon/it)

Saturn (he/him)

Mettaton (he/fae)

Overgrowth (she/her)

#the wanderers drift away #pinned post #tag o' catch all #epoch's personal screams #hallow sings to the void #velvet shifts the gears