Happy Women's Day! 🌼 The #Women #Weavers on the #Bauhaus Stairway, Dessau 1927. Lena Bergner, Grete Reichardt, Lijuba Monastirsky, Otti Berger, Lis Beyer, Elisabeth Mueller, Rosa Berger, Ruth Hollos, Lisbeth Oestreiche, young Gunta Stölzl in front. Photo © Lux Feininger

Dame Mary Quant (1930-2023) It’s impossible to overstate Quant’s contribution to fashion. She represented the joyful freedom of 1960s fashion, and provided a new role model for young women. Fashion today owes so much to her trailblazing vision.

A set of notebooks that belonged to a Danish sailor c.1690, six of which have have unusual black pages. One has been written on with chalk, while the others have writing etched into the pages. Below is breakdown of what we have discovered about them with a few observations /1

Ligatures ~ The journey from Et to & ~ #letters #lettering #et #ampersand #study #sunday #ligatures

Such a fascinating ‘g’, with its joint going through its counter, and the loop ending with a horizontal terminal that cuts into its open counter space. From ‘Art Alphabets and Lettering’ (Bergling, 1914).

Did you draw #eurovision tonight? I did!