So coveting these magically old, fairy-tale editions ✨

🎨 Yasu Matsuoka

Art Nouveau pattern book from 1900 by Maurice Verneuil, France.

The Great Wall of Yajuj Majuj (Gog and Magog) from the Kitab al-Bulhan (The Book of Wonders)

'Spring Ponies' from the series 'Child Geisha in Their First Dances of the New Year' - Kitagawa Utamaro, ca. 1806.
#JapaneseArt #ukiyoe

#Ramadan is over #eid fun is here!

How to address a letter in an era before the creation of modern street addresses?

'May this letter reach Hamirci Mehmed Ağa, servant of his excellency the finance minister, who lives at Daltaban Çeşmesi in the imperial capital.' (20 May 1618)

Publication day (discount code coming)!

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I'm really looking forward to the responses it generates.

For now, I want to recognize the incredible network of friends & colleagues around me, who helped make this a richly edifying & deeply enjoyable process.

bowl with beautiful calligraphic ,Iran or present-day Uzbekistan, 10th century
The inscription reads
'Whoever talks a lot, slips a lot,”

Source metmuseum

Favorite of most of us. Nusrat hour

In Irish myth, Conand is the Fomorian leader who lived on Tory Island in a great glass tower, Tor Conaind. Fergus Lethderg the Nemedian killed Conand, after he demanded a huge tribute from them.

Fog spirits dancing on a moonlit lake ✨

Art by Kinko White

Chaye tea vibes all the way.