#COOL !!

[awlwren]

[id: a white swan made of felt. The body and neck are plush, and the neck curved on itself in an s shape. The feet or tail is brown, and also plush, but the wings are flat felt draped over the back with long dramatic feathers that end in black.]/end id.

From the Hermitage Museum description: "The body of the swan, filled with reindeer wool, is made of white felt, while the bill, cere and eye of black felt. The feet made from felt of a reddish-brown colour are stretched over wooden stakes that support the figure in a vertical position. The swan was probably fixed on the wooden top of a chariot or decorated the top of a funeral tent. The representation of birds was rarely used by ancient Altaic people. A swan symbolized life in three spheres of the universe - in air, on earth and in water. There was also a widespread concept of the creation of the universe by a swan, duck or goose, which was characteristic of many cosmogonical conceptions in ancient times."

2,300-Year-Old Plush Bird from the Altai Mountains of Siberia, c.400-300 BCE: this figure was crafted with a felt body and reindeer-fur stuffing, all of which remains intact

This plush bird was sealed within the frozen barrows of Pazyryk, Siberia, for more than two millennia, where a unique microclimate enabled it to be preserved. The permafrost ice lense formation that runs below the barrows provided an insulating layer, preventing the soil from heating during the summer and allowing it to quickly freeze during the winter; these conditions produced a separate microclimate within the stone walls of the barrows themselves, thereby aiding in the preservation of the artifacts inside.

This is just one of the many well-preserved artifacts that have been found at Pazyryk. These artifacts are attributed to the Scythian/Altaic cultures.

Currently housed at the Hermitage Museum.

[colormush]

[peloblancophoto]

Fall Ferns

[enlightened-eyes]

My Drive to Work

[psychodelousion]

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[feathery-dreamer]

please tell Irma I am adopting her and she is my grandma now

There’s a regular at the fabric superstore. She’s at least 80 years old, and she just got back into sewing after giving it up for 40 years. We’ll call her Irma.

I love Irma.

Irma is constantly surprised by the newfangled sewing gadgets our store sells. Today she bought some extra-fine glass-head pins and a magnetic pincushion. As I’m ringing her purchases up, she tells me very seriously, “did you know, if you’re careful, you can sew RIGHT OVER those pins? You don’t need to take them out!”

I told her that I liked that you can’t accidentally melt the head of the glass pins with your iron, and she nodded. “They used to all be like that, but times changed.”

I love old sewing machines and asked what kind of machine she has, and she goes, “Oh, it’s an old Singer Featherweight that my husband bought me when we were first married. It’s probably not worth anything anymore, but the thing sews fine. Have you seen the ones those girls over there–” indicating the sewing machine sub-store in my location “–have? Those things go in every direction and the needle always comes to the top when you stop sewing! Imagine how handy that is!”

I mention that I used to sew on my grandmother’s Featherweight but now there’s a intra-family war about who owns Grandma’s Featherweight and so no one gets to use it. It’s genuinely the best portable straight-stitch machine I’ve ever used.

I warn her to never let anyone tell her that Featherweight isn’t worth something. “I know, I miss my husband and it’s always going to have a place in my heart, just like your grandma’s.”

“I mean, Irma, there’s that, but they’re also worth a really notable amount of money. The Singer Featherweight is really financially valuable. I almost never see them for sale around here for less than about $400, and that’s in bad condition.”

“It’s a good thing my husband’s dead, honey, because if you told him that he managed to buy a sewing machine that’s worth more in 2021 than he bought it for in 1950, well, he’d be so smug that I just wouldn’t be able to tolerate driving home with him.”

[thegoodmorningman]

I would never say this because I'm so cool and mellow, but Indianapolis Jones says, "When fascism comes, burn that shit to the ground." Dude has very little chill. Unlike me. I'm just like, "whatever, man. Good Morning!!!"

[pythiart23]

[colormush]

[clembarbarossa]

@jiruchan :D

Zoozve, my beloved

[nickpeppermint]

Brave King of Beasts Leomon! 🦁🔥

[fimbry]

Me for the last week or months I don't know. When I first moved to Houston 9 years ago I was insanely allergic to the AIR for an entire year. Now my body has decided the air is poison again. I went outside yesterday for 30 minutes after a rain and umm I guess the air is 99% pollen the way I reacted I don't know what to say. Benadryl is helping.

[peloblancophoto]

Dee Wright Observatory Sunset 3

[heremomohere]

cool art!!ye i really like the color and pixel art style!

redraw of a super cool frame from an animation made by @fluffffpillow !!! i love their interpretation of dca, especially moon. love that ‘mouth’ video so much:)

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[batri-jopa]

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