William Morris Tile (XineAnn)さんのイラストまとめ

Two new red lustre De Morgan birds. #tiles #victorian

New additions to William De Morgan red lustre tiles: Flamingo and Hedgehog. *Not* part of the De Morgan Lewis Carroll fireplace at Oxford, but really should have been. Jabberwocky added for completeness. #demorgan #tiles #victorian #tile

@JordanRTaylor13 @csecooney I have those, too. The most valuable book in my library is is a first edition of Kay Nielsen's Red Magic. (I have them all up here: https://t.co/3B5Q2glBi3)

For #FolkloreThursday, it's choose your favorite hero from #myth and #folklore. "I never turned anyone into a pig. Some people are pigs. I make them look like pigs." ~Louise Gluck, Circe's Power [The Poem: https://t.co/jhkfKyjUUd] [Circes: Burne-Jones and Waterhouse ]

@paganpages @middlishdebbie That's another handsome basilisk the bottom right corner.

Medieval beauty tip: Spread crocodile dung on your face until the sweat washes it off for a fresh look. [Bestiary of Anne Walshe: Crocodile hunter. The crocodile will weep after, but ion't be sincere.] #FolkloreThursday #animals @FolkloreThurs

Crystal gazing was practiced by ancient civilizations in North and South America, Egypt, Persian, China. Pliny the Elder tells of Celtic Druids of Gaul, Britain, &Ireland. Burne-Jones uses spheres as the home of unrealized worlds and possibilities.@FolkloreThurs #FolkloreThursday

*Harvest* comes from Old English and means "Autumn". Harvesting (and reaping) with William Morris and the Limbourg Brothers. [ Left: Rossetti tiles based on Morris & Co. Labors designs. Right: Autumn tiles Tres Riches Heures Labors] #FolkloreThursday #harvest @FolkloreThurs

$5 from the price of each #medieval cat tile goes to the kitties at @BlindCatRescue Cat Rescue Blind Cat Rescue and Sanctuary, Inc. BCR is in the Hurricane Florence path. Please send prayers and sparkle. #HurricaneFlorerence More cats: https://t.co/qvduXEH18b

When seekend #legends, it is good to have a #map. Legends often center around #trees. You are here (somewhere): Yggdrasil, the Viking World Tree, an Ash. #folklorethursday @FolkloreThurs