#Bazaar art

[hinducosmos]

Goddess Lakshmi Over 30 years old Indian print (via ebay: Ganga_jal)

[numerodixe]

Wu Jinyan for Bazaar Art - July 2024

[armpitnoodlejuice]

Just going to photoshop my life

[septimaseverina]

The real name is Treepura Sundaree Devee (त्रीणर सुनढरी ढेवी IAST : Trīpura Sundarī Devī).

The variant name is Lalitaa (ललिता IAST : Lalita).

The word Treepura means 'three cities' or 'three worlds'. In this case is three worlds because she is one of the supreme Deities (Mother Godesses), the said worlds are above (heaven), human earth and below (Pataal - where demons live). While the word Sundaree means 'beautiful woman'. So her name can be translated as 'the beautiful woman who is the destroyer of three worlds'.

She is the another avatar of Goddess Paravatee. In this avatar she is the goddess of universal beauty. Some texts states she is also the goddess of pleasure.

She is one of ten Sree Mahaavidyaa Goddesses, the Deities who govern and help the devotees to discover the wisdom - the truth of ones' lives, which are various.

And the word 'Mahaavidyaa' (महीविढ्या IAST : Mahāvidyā) means 'great wisdom'.

Sri Lalita-Tripurasundari

[wh0-is-lily]

Adit Priscilla in ‘In Bloom’ for Harper’s Bazaar, March 2022 Photographed by Pieter Hugo

[bpbpaint]

@simonerocha

_ SS23 Silver Foil Harness Dress in

@harpersbazaarus styled by @katieshillingford shot by @ben_toms #simonerocha

[steezylad]

[livesunique]

The Ceiling Of Qeysarieh by Farshid Ahmadpour.

This is the ceiling of the Qeysarieh Gate in Isfahan, Iran, part of the ceremonial site of the Safavid court and a 400-year-old national mansion protected by UNESCO.

The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB)

[zegalba]

"Angie" for Harper's Bazaar China (2023) Photography: Wang Lei & Jiang Kun

[pupcha]

[young] Harvey and Dr. Stone!!!

(@clownsuu's OCs!!)

mini "comic" about Harvey's possible love?? (I do not pretend to be canon) just a funny sketch from my head.

and also I have this—

I really love these young old farts 🥹

[hinducosmos]

Draupadi and the Pandavas worshipping Lord Shiva Pandavas visit Kedarnath after Mahabharata war. Mahabharata Tej Kumar Book Depot Mahavir Prasad Mishra. (via Wikipedia.org)

[moonstruck-stormy]

The masters of the bazaar lineup! Yippee!

[the-avaricious-meddler]

Spices and Wines debate how to raise a child

[sunshine304]

FTH Fanbinding: "Concord" by Deastar

@youhideastar won my FTH auction and gave me a great gift: She wanted me to bind her CQL fic "Concord" including the thorough author's commentary she'd done. I was so happy when she chose this fic because I'd loved it so much and had pondered doing a fanbinding of it at some point anyway. 😄

Now that the book has finally arrived (spending two days in the air even, I guess, at least when one looks at the tracking info 😆), I can show it off here!

I tried some new stuff on this bind and also some things that I'd only done once before and that definitely need some, uh, perfecting. 😅 But overall, I'm very pleased with how this book turned out, as it's pretty close to what I'd imagined when I started it.

The fic is set in Cloud Recesses and Dea and I agreed that the colour blue should be prominent in the design, as it not only fits the setting, but also is of significance in the story itself. As the rules and traditions of the Lan sect also are quite important, I wanted a very clean, simple style for the case, a bit reminiscent of traditional Chinese bindings.

I did the title as a cut-out and used Japanese transparent paper for some extra flavour. The paper shows up inside the book as well early on and I liked the recurring motive of it. I'm also really pleased how well the hot foil came out on it! I was a bit scared that it might rip or something, but it's quite sturdy, after all.

I thought about doing a faux stab binding with red thread to get even more of a traditional feel, but then decided against it as I'd wanted to use two different blue book cloths and I felt that it might get too busy. Instead, I used the red ribbon as a nod to Wei Wuxian.

The little cloud illustration is used several times in the typeset and I like how it comes out in the title. I didn't even mess up this title, yay! (Mine's got a few tiny blotches but uh well, better mine than Dea's!)

I painted the edges with metallic watercolours - the second time I tried painting edges, but this time with several colours and trying to do a little illustration as well. Big thanks to @zhalfirin who quickly answered my question about how to get the paint to actually stick. 😆 I'd read several posts about how awesome water colours are for foreedge painting, but none mentioned that this kind of paint just rubs off again (I am no artist and have no knowledge of different kinds of paint). Zhalfirin told me to mix in glue and also wax the edges afterwards, which I both did and I think it's fine now. At least my fingers didn't turn blue. 😅

I really love how the shading came out on the head/tail; it could've been better on the foreedge and it looked great while the paint was still wet. Steep learning curve, this thing. I also died trying to sand the edges and I didn't get them completely smooth, but at least smooth enough to work with. That also needs some more work, I guess.

First time I sewed endbands with four different colours! I think they came out quite well! I also forgot the second row of dark blue on Dea's book and had to unravel half the endband again when I noticed at the very end... 🤦‍♀��

Nice marbled endpapers. For the title page spread, I used part a very famous Chinese painting, as it not only reminds me of the Gusu mountains but also, again, is very traditional. I played around with the colours to give the picture a bit of a bluer tinge.

The typeset itself was very straight-forward. There's the fic without commentary, and then the second part with it. I used a grey background for the comment parts to make it stand out from the actual story.

I had lots of printer issues with this fic (my copy actually had even more issues because the printer treated every page as an image for unknown reasons and therefore it not only took forever, it's also a tiny bit blurry. Hmpf.) and the greys tended to have a bit of a blue tinge, which was not my intention. But at least it works with the overall theme, I guess! 😅

I also did an extensive Appendix with all the meta links mentioned in the commentary as well as cut scenes and a little "praise for the author" section.

Last but not least, I decided to try making a slipcase for the first time! DAS_Bookbinding on youtube has good tutorials on that and I used one of them. It worked well on the first try. The second try, I used sturdier cardboard and should've added a few millimetres to the width, because the book didn't fit - the ribbon got stuck and I feared that it might get damaged. So I had to redo the case and then it was perfect.

I used wallpaper as cover material. 😄 The one you see on the outside? That's my living room wallpaper, a light blue with a lovely pattern and soft shimmer to it. My camera unfortunately is refusing to get the colour right.🤷‍♂️

The assembling process went well, for the most part. I'd forgotten to shorten the endpapers a bit which I only realised after I'd started casing in my copy. I carefully separated the textblock from the case again and then, in a moment of complete mental blackout, tried to cut the wet paper. 🤦‍♀️ That didn't go well. I managed to salvage it, mostly, and of course didn't repeat the mistake with Dea's copy, but ugh. 😆

This was a super fun project and I'm very happy with it! Thank you again, Dea, for your faith in me and your super generous donation! 💙

Materials used:

Printed on Clairefontaine DCP 100g

Case and endpapers:

booklinen Colibri cornflower

booklinen Paradise aqua

marbled paper 120g

transparent Japanese paper

Hot Foil (Memory Keepers)

Slipcase:

fleece wallpaper Newroom Nisa lightblue

fleece wallpaper grey glitter

[wh0-is-lily]

Sharon Tate in a Halston hat for Harper’s Bazaar Photographed by Neal Barr, 1967

[thisisrealy2kok]

Shalom Harlow in Harper's Bazaar (1995)