1860's Ballgown Bodice in Floral Print

Original lady's Ball Gown bodice from the Civil War period. It's made of vibrant floral-patterned silk chine. Features include dropped shoulders with piped armholes, waist and neckline. The sleeves are elegantly and lavishly trimmed out in colorful fringed braid! The bodice is boned and lined with off-white cotton twill. This is a classic example of Civil War Era bodices and dates to the earliest part of the war.

Hello friends, I'll be trying my luck here. Here's a lucky black cat to start with!!

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Emerald Apparition (2021) oil pastel on paper

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Lily Pad Pattern

Ghost lady from last November. She was buried in my drafts 👻

Btw I have a sideblog where I reblog amazing arts, lovely textposts and gorgeous memes. Check it out if you’re interested ;) 

some of the floral cross stitch patterns available now on my ko-fi for free :D

Natur und Kunst im Zeichenunterricht - 1902 - via Staats-und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden (SLUB)

Kennet (1883) by William Morris.

Birmingham Museums Trust.

Creative Commons 0 - Public Domain.

Florals embroidered onto a 1990 Volkswagen Golf GTI (2009) by Lithuanian artist: Severija Incirauskaite-Kriauneviciene

Zendaya at the Met Gala 2024, wearing custom Maison Margiela Artisanal by John Galliano, and hat by Stephen Jones.

The fruit, flowers, insects and birds on the gown fit the dress code of the night, 'The Garden of Time', inspired by J.G. Ballard's 1962 short story (explained here by the BBC).

The gown also references John Galliano’s Spring 1999 couture collection for Dior, in particular the gown below, decorated with grapes.

Maison Margiela said:

'A sage lamé bias-cut ‘siren dress’ overlaid with iridescent electric blue organza with ‘retrograding’ in undulating bands of hand-painted metallic crin, swathed in an aluminium material and iridescent organza drape and bow, with a corsage hand-embroidered in a bacchanal of hand-painted impasto in the grammar of the electric blues and emerald greens of scarab amulets, with formations of birds, flowers, vines, grapes and nuts, worn over a boudoir-coloured duchess satin corset. A silver metal-wire ‘reverse swatching’ hat and a black hand-painted voile crafted in the memory of plume and enveloped in matching coloured stockings by Stephen Jones for Maison Margiela, and Eau de Nil velour and faux lizard Tabi interlaced ankle-strap pumps by Christian Louboutin for Maison Margiela.

Created for Zendaya by John Galliano for Maison Margiela, the haute couture silhouette was inspired by the 1930s mythological works of the photographer Madame Yevonde and imbued with the memory of the orgiastic sceneries of the bacchanals of Ancient Greece. In a dance between painterly cutting and draping techniques – unique to each layer of the construction – and the superposition of fabric textures such as tin foil with transparent iridescent organza overlay, the composition conjures the staccato brushstrokes of Giovanni Boldini. The bias-cut ‘siren dress’ is a key expression in the creative practice of John Galliano, which first appeared at Maison Margiela in the Spring-Summer 2020 Artisanal Collection. Infused with a certain ‘snobisme’, the look is given the epithet of ‘86 and Lexington’, a nod to the subway station near The Met.

The dress was crafted with ‘retrograding’, a technique through which variations of thread-work, appliqué or encrustation degrade from the bottom to the top of a garment like the linear base drawing of a painting that hasn’t yet been finished. The ‘reverse swatching’ technique employed in the hat exchanges the fabrics traditionally used for certain parts of dressmaking with materials of a contrasting value.' X

A pattern version of my latest piece "Metamorphosis".

love me some flowery kettles 🌸🌼🫖🌼🌸

After a long long hiatus with lots of introspection, I finally returned with something inside my comfort zone: cottagecore, with a cutesy drawing of kettles and made some wallpapers exclusive for patreon only one is literally a kitchen inspired wallpaper, which I love <3

my friends and i spent an entire HOUR sitting at a table in the cafeteria just going back and forth describing totally original concepts for totally original d&d characters, such as

a sorcerer who specializes in fire magic and had half his face burnt off by his father

a powerful king that renounced his throne to work at a tavern and sell affordable sandwiches

a large, brightly-colored warforged that can change shape into a wheeled vehicle

a 30 year old human wizard capable of transmutation magic that formerly found work as a carpenter

Legendary bird floral wallpaper

Dead Tired Honey Swamp

Shout out to @deuces-stone-cold-style for the nightgown inspo!

tonight i wish i was your boy