A jewel box of a book ✨ This 19th century French sales sample book contains very thin metal ornaments, made of foil over card. These would have been used like fancy sequins, and adorned everything from cards to clothes! They’re sometimes called Dresdens after the town in Germany where many were made. I know I say this a lot, but this book really floored me 🤩 Part of col. 838 in the Winterthur Library 📚
Thwaitesia argentiopunctata known as the sequined spider, mirror spider, or twin-peaked Thwaitesia, is a species of spider found in almost all states of Australia.
It is known to have a reflective abdomen that plays a crucial role in their camouflage to protect them from predators in the forest canopy.
The scales look like solid pieces of mirror glued to the spider's back, but they can actually change size depending on how threatened the spider feels. The reflective scales are composed of reflective guanine, which these and other spiders use to give themselves color.
[A-Z Animals: Sequined Spider]
Rebecca Ferguson at the Met Gala 2024, wearing custom Thom Browne.
'Gathered cape in black silk moiré with blue moiré lining and black raven appliqués, over a rep stripe high neck dress embroidered with black and white sequins, raffia, lurex, and sequin black ravens and 60,000 blue and green Swarovski crystal florets, with heelless platform saddle boots in black nubuck leather.'
The daggers belonging to The Gentleman Pirate and Blackbeard.
Each blade was hand cut and shaped, Ed’s dagger, all the leaves and flowers hand-painted by me, all stitched onto the frame. Ed’s hilt is wrapped in real leather.
Pandorea (baby Bonnet flowers) and clematis for Ed
Of fucking course Shadowheart has one of those goddamn sequins pillows at her tent. Of course she does. Right next to her scented candles and her copies of YA vampire romance novels. Right next to her fucking incense that smells like 'midnight' or 'black diamond' or something. Right next to her rolled up scrolls of poetry that nobody else is allowed to read. Right next to her fucking potted plant that has a name and a personality and that she likes more than most people.