Entries Tagged as 'Objects and Artifacts'
February 17th, 2010 · 3 Comments

While researching book bindings for a project, I’ve been coming across these gorgeous embroidered book covers and bindings from the 16th and 17th century. Thought I’d make a blog post out of these exquisite works of art.. The original scans for the books are scattered throughout The British Library Database of Bookbindings. I’ve just selected, [...]
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Tags: · antiquarian books, antiques, book covers, embroidery
February 1st, 2010 · 8 Comments

Now this was a lot of fun to discover. I purchased an old leather sewing kit. It was in excellent shape and apparently had nothing inside it except a rusty threaded needle and brown paper padding at the bottom. However, there was something quite interesting and well hidden wrapped in that plain brown paper.
The mysterious [...]
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Tags: · antiquarian books, antiques, book pages, treasure hunting
January 30th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Mixed media art by Mother Nature in fungus on tree bark. Found in our wood pile and almost tossed into the fire.
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Tags: · found art, pareidolia
January 23rd, 2010 · 2 Comments

“We now come to a beautiful and loquacious race of animals, that embellish our forests, amuse our walks, and exclude solitude from our most shady retirements. From there man has nothing to fear, their pleasures, their desires, and even their animosities, only serve to enliven the general picture of Nature, and give harmony to meditation.”
Yet [...]
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Tags: · birds, book covers, book pages, fish, language, natural history
January 17th, 2010 · 6 Comments

I first ran into this weird little doll about four years ago, close to when we moved here from Boston. He lived in a glass case in one of the local antique markets. I’m not really a doll person per se. I don’t collect them and I didn’t often play with them when I was [...]
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Tags: · antiques, dolls, folk art, found art, synchroncity, treasure hunting