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if you're in the throes of cosmic despair i cannot recommend museums enough. art or science or history it doesn't matter. oh we're all connected, all of us and everything, throughout all time and space, and no one, no one, no one is alone? awesome. that's what i thought i just wanted to make sure.

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Increase my pie order!

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Last attempt before doing a massive patch… I remember when I used to do acrylic painting, if I got the paint on my clothes, especially if it was rubbed in, the clothes were ruined because the paint stained. I figured I could just try to “stain” the stain. Guess the art degree finally came in handy because look at the colour match I just did (left splotch for colour comparison)

I need some advice removing a mystery stain from a wool tunic.

Someone gave me an extra tunic for WW1 reenactment (made probably the late 40s or 50s, not sure if it’s a wool blend or not) and I’d love to wear it for a reenactment this weekend. But for some reason, it has a single mystery red stain in the very middle. It looks like a fake blood spot done for a display that someone unfortunately left for god knows how long. I have no idea when the stain was made and no idea what it could possibly be to know what to use to remove it. But whatever it was must’ve been seriously dye based because I have spot cleaned this thing over 10 times already with both vinegar and an oxi stain remover. Varying lengths of time, various amounts of product, soaked for half an hour, overnight, hot water, cold water, etc, everything, and it has barely faded.

Anybody have any idea what I could do? (Pic when I first got it)

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Thanks for all the tips, but nothing seems to be working. It’s not wine or food based, it has a deliberate cartoon “splat” shape when the stain is matched together. I took it by a few dry cleaners who said the stain looked like it had been set years before I even got to it so even with their cleaning process it probably wouldn’t be effective, and any of their chemical removals may damage the garment beyond repair. I’m resorting to a 1940’s book on patching wool. I’m taking the sleeves up anyway which leaves me with more than enough material to make the patch from. So wish me luck!

A note to any new reenactors: never EVER use any kind of fake blood on a period garment. That’s a 1940s piece effectively ruined by such a dumb decision

I need some advice removing a mystery stain from a wool tunic.

Someone gave me an extra tunic for WW1 reenactment (made probably the late 40s or 50s, not sure if it’s a wool blend or not) and I’d love to wear it for a reenactment this weekend. But for some reason, it has a single mystery red stain in the very middle. It looks like a fake blood spot done for a display that someone unfortunately left for god knows how long. I have no idea when the stain was made and no idea what it could possibly be to know what to use to remove it. But whatever it was must’ve been seriously dye based because I have spot cleaned this thing over 10 times already with both vinegar and an oxi stain remover. Varying lengths of time, various amounts of product, soaked for half an hour, overnight, hot water, cold water, etc, everything, and it has barely faded.

Anybody have any idea what I could do? (Pic when I first got it)

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untitled - F. S., 1898

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The perfect excuse for a date.

ig credit: october.ly.

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I need some advice removing a mystery stain from a wool tunic.

Someone gave me an extra tunic for WW1 reenactment (made probably the late 40s or 50s, not sure if it’s a wool blend or not) and I’d love to wear it for a reenactment this weekend. But for some reason, it has a single mystery red stain in the very middle. It looks like a fake blood spot done for a display that someone unfortunately left for god knows how long. I have no idea when the stain was made and no idea what it could possibly be to know what to use to remove it. But whatever it was must’ve been seriously dye based because I have spot cleaned this thing over 10 times already with both vinegar and an oxi stain remover. Varying lengths of time, various amounts of product, soaked for half an hour, overnight, hot water, cold water, etc, everything, and it has barely faded.

Anybody have any idea what I could do? (Pic when I first got it)

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If you’re LGBT reblog and tag with your opinion on beer.

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OH MY GOD 🥹

Taken from Lawrence of Arabia The 30th Anniversary Pictorial History

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you can discuss the problems within academia literally forever and you probably should but “historians are trying to keep information from you” is always going to be an anti-intellectual, reactionary opinion, sorry, literally no way around that

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Romeo and Juliet (1968) dir. Franco Zeffirelli

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Gustave Doré : “Joyeuseté” ou “À saute-mouton”, bronze, vers 1881. (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)

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Dutch silver serving set, late 18th - early 19th century

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fuck it’s august??? what’s next? 2022???? can’t do this anymore