Dr Isabella Rosnerさんのイラストまとめ

Happy November! It's cold and we're about to enter another lockdown which means what I really want is to be able to walk around the house wearing a fashionable yet cosy 17th-century coif like these from @metmuseum, @cooperhewitt, @mfaboston, and @NGVMelbourne

Never not thinking about Benjamin Lay, my 4' tall, vegetarian, abolitionist Quaker king. He had really long arms and only ate fruit, veg, and honey. He made his own clothes to boycott slave labour and lived in a cave where he raised goats, grew fruit trees, & spun his own flax

What we've seen this week is that across the centuries, no matter how much things change, that desire and need to work with one’s hands remains. These women printmakers and painters and textile designers bridged art and craft, proving what we already know.... (14/17)

Get a load of this 17th-century mirror frame! This one's from @Sothebys and I am SO in love with the cat and the fruit gatherers. I wish cats appeared more often on 17th-century needlework 😭🐱

Carrying on the theme of Judaica close to my heart, this is a Torah binder possibly made by an Italian woman named Miriam Foa around 1615. It's at the @metmuseum and trust me when I say images hardly do the truly impeccable embroidery justice. It's absolutely stunning