#1618

[interventionlullabies]

Diego Velázquez, An Old Woman Cooking Eggs, 1618

[mapsontheweb]

Map of the Secular Electorates of the Holy Roman Empire, 1618.

Red: Bohemia

Green: Brandenburg

Blue: Bavaria

Violet: Saxony

Yellow: Palatinate

Orange: Hanover

[my18thcenturysource]

I was looking for something else, but I ended up downloading this Spanish tailoring book from the Biblioteca Digital Hispánica from 1618 (!!!!!), and after a song and some licences from the King and thank yous to Don Andrés Roig, and the note that the book does not contain anything against the Catholic faith, the book starts with the description of measurements for fabrics: la bara de medir.

Of course it has PAGES of the ways a bara can be divided, notes for how many fingers are half a palm (6 fingers), and other divisions and measurement. If you know Spanish, you can read the first page up here and the way it is signaled later in the book for the patterns like this one of a doublet:

I love the way it is explained that you can cut a garment in different ways for different widths of fabric, in this case the first option of for a fabric of one bara and 6 fingers (these appear in the first page up here), the second 1 bara and a forth, and the third is 1 bara, a forth, an ochavo (6 fingers) and 1 finger:

Weird way to measure, but sure, we all can move our patterns with this nice guide.

All images from the book "Geometría y Traça Perteneciente al Oficio de Sastres", (1618), Rocha Burgen, Francisco, Biblioteca Nacional de España.

[misscromwellsmonocle]

Medusa (c. 1618) by Peter Paul Rubens

[mercuriicultores]

1618-1622, Giovanni Battista Caracciolo, Cupido dormiente

[postcard-from-the-past]

Grand Hôtel de la Dorade in Narbonne, Languedoc region of southern France

French vintage postcard

[dailysmilingnatsume]

[nemfrog]

A woman wearing a crown holds ribbons bearing words in Latin as she stands next to a tree with many branches while over her right shoulder, sun rays shine through a break in the clouds.

Emblema XXVI. Sapientiæ humanæ fructus Lignum vitae est. (Human wisdom is the fruit of the tree of life.) Atalanta Fugiens. 1618.

Science History Archive

[malenudepaintings]

Two Satyrs, Peter Paul Rubens, 1618-1619, Altek Pinakothek

[hisdhampir]

Saint Bartholomew (1618 - 1654) by Bernardo Cavallino

[digitalfashionmuseum]

Beige Doublet and Trunk Hose, ca. 1618, English.

Victoria and Albert Museum.

[anakarens-world]

Vieja friendo huevos

Diego Velazquez (1618)

[sweet-vanilla-sims]

Year 1618

TW/CW: Death

Late at night in January, Grace was woken from her sleep by the stirrings of labor which both made her sigh in relief but also stressed her out since the wait was over but the fear that she almost died last time was immense.

Her labor was thankfully uncomplicated once she was forced to set aside her fear and on January 20th, Isabella Robles was born. Grace was immediately in love with her daughter and while the family was delighted to welcome their little girl, the family patriarch tried, badly, to hide his disappointment with not having a great-grandson instead. Still, a healthy mother and child was a cause to celebrate in the home.

With the new baby in the family Adrian felt it was time to talk to his grandson about the future. He wasn't exactly the man to give lectures about marriage and kids but he did want his boy to settle into some kind of career at least to make a name for himself at the least. Vincente wasn't immune to considering the future for himself, in fact, with his brothers gone he knew that he was supposed to build something for his family. But what? He liked the stars but that wasn't much of a future for a humble farmer's son.

Late May came around and it was official. The fears that they had been hearing about came to fruition as War broke out. Mostly near Windenburg but still, war was never a good thing. Tartosa was largely unaffected in that the only people heading out were those who wished to such as Barnaby and the Laurent family head but who knew how things may change in the future. Adrian was glad to hear that Vincente had zero intention of going to any war but the thought scared him that there could come a day where he'd have no choice. Hopefully things would end sooner than later.

Frideswide left for Henford sooner than she had anticipated to at the very least attend her sons birthday and while she was there she noticed that her sister-in-law had grown into a lovely young lady. Though both Frideswide and her husband left the Carlisle ancestral home as Watson chose to join up with the war much to the rest of the family's disapproval. Frideswide didn't say much about that since she also followed her whims but she wondered about the future of her sons being raised by their paternal family.

Back in the Robles family, a fire had broken out and claimed the life of Aurelio's mother, orphaning him and his much younger sister in early October.

Though Guglielma turned six not even two weeks after her grandmother's passing which was did help lift the mood of the home, it was still a muted affair. Of course, with her growing bigger and with the loss of his daughter, Ignacio was more adamant about seeing that the Robles name continued on through Aurelio as he began to start pressuring his grandson and granddaughter-in-law to have a son.

[james-vi-stan-blog]

James VI of Scotland and I of England, 1618, by Paul van Somer

[tippysattic]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: American Sports Bowling theme necktie.

[postcard-from-the-past]

Grand Hôtel de la Dorade in Narbonne, Languedoc region of southern France

French vintage postcard