#WOMENSART blog: The Glasgow School Sisters who Influenced Klimt womensartblog.wordpress.com/2017/10/14/the…

Quite spontaneously, here are some of my favourite biscuit (cookie) sets from the past three years. This set feels to me like summertime. It came together in a whirlwind after a rewatch of 'Emma' (2020). Each biscuit is inspired by a costume featured in the film.

Thursday’s ‘elephant done by a medieval artist that had never seen one’ - 14th century, Lilienfeld, Stiftsbibliothek, 114, f. 35r

While watching Our Welsh Chapel Dream: the renovation of Capel Salem ⛪️ Grade II-listed former chapel in Pwllheli, Wales - we spotted some pillars from Glasgow's, *MacFarlane Foundry* 1849-1967 #OurWelshChapelDream 🛠️More 👉scran.ac.uk/database/resul…

Found inside the Journal of Design and Manufacturers, from 1850, are these gorgeous purple hued fabric samples. Hidden inside this book, they have remained vibrant even though they over 170 years old #FabricFriday

The handwriting of famous authors - thread 🧵 1. Fyodor Dostoevsky's manuscript draft of The Brothers Karamazov

Its 1787, and you can pick up a bottle of artificial 'spaw water' in the town of Leith, made from a mix of water, chalk, magnesia and salt

Well, now I NEED to go paint some bricks to look like little books for my front garden

An example of Polish folk embroidery, woman's bodice, hand and machine-sewn, c.1920 #WomensArt

The Belgian kit for #Euro2024 is outrageously great, and has been designed to look like Tintin Well done guys 👏👏👏

Fred Dibnah - old school.

From summer #research back in 2018 Pilgrim Hall Museum #whatididonsummervacation 4 silk & brocaded silk shoes dating from 17th-18th centuries Pilgrim Hall Museum #timewornbeauty #shoestories #wellworn #mules #buckleshoes

Gustav Klimt's Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer reimagined with biscuits/cookies, by Julia Timoshkova. The model is her daughter Antonina #WomensArt

City of Glasgow Police, Album showing Criminals, 1911-1912, Archive Ref: SR22/63/12

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This #IntlCatDay, enjoy some of our favourite felines from our manuscripts. #Cats are most often depicted with mice, but a variety of characteristics are shown here that capture the wider range of their personality.

Request for funds by the Exchequer Office doorkeeper in 1715 to keep a cat, to protect the records: “greatly damnified, eaten and destroyed by rates and myce”. There’s no record of whether his employers were able to scratch together the cash or whether the kitty was empty.

Old Tour #Scotland Ancestry Travel visit Genealogy Scottish Family History Blog photography of cottages, houses and people and story of #Howwood, #Renfrewshire Chief industry in village was once bleaching and finishing of cotton cloth and thread tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2014/12/old-ph…

Two dogs herding hundreds of sheep into a pen without missing a single one showcase impressive herding skills and coordination between the dogs and their handler. These dogs, often border collies or Australian shepherds, are trained to respond to commands and work together to

Today I saw Rembrandt’s 1635-37 drawings of women teaching babies to walk at British Museum. They’re some of my favourite depictions of pudding caps! You can really feel the tenderness and care. I also fell in love with Adriaen van Ostade’s 1672 depiction of a woman sewing