#Caerdydd

[llyfrenfys]

I have made some Welsh LGBTQ+ Prints!

P'nawn da! Today is the day I'm finally launching my Welsh LGBTQ+ prints for sale (find them here). Like with my dissertation, they're pay as you feel (min. £2 plus postage) and I can post them to the UK, US, EU and Canada! Designs include the 2017 Gilbert Baker flag with the stripe meanings in Welsh and English, the map of Wales featuring my pride redesigns of the historic county flags of Wales, lesbian redesign of the Cardiff flag and a brand new design featuring 12 pride flags with the names of each in Welsh and English. I have 5 of each print in stock!

If you're new here or didn't know, unfortunately I experienced several major life changes this year which have really affected my finances (hospitalisation, long term relationship ended, emergency house move, job loss due to employer discrimination and a family member diagnosed with a terminal illness. For more details see this post). In order to help support myself I'm offering these prints for sale while I search for a new part time job. At the time of writing, I only have enough money in savings to cover 2 more months of rent and bills (not including food), so anything you can spare will help me afford food and keep doing what I love. I also have a patreon if you want to support me there.

I have also got my 47-page undergraduate dissertation on the development of Welsh-language terminology between 1972 and 2022 available here as pay as you feel (even £1!). Any support is hugely, hugely appreciated.

[official-wales]

Do you know of the greatest Welshman Ianto Jones?

(sorry Michael Sheen)

- @official-ottawa

do I know him. every day we morne his passing in wales. it's a national holiday. here's the most recent photo of ianto's shrine I took at the start of summer

[creatrixcymraes]

a text installation piece I made at the building where my new studio is 💖

[id: photo of a turquoise blue wall covered in cut-out letters of many colours and patterns. The text reads, "the truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free — Maya Angelou". In front of the wall is a small wooden table and a cream-coloured birdcage, both of which have fallen over and been left open as a physical symbol of freedom (this element was added by another artist, not me). /End id]

[mountainside]

Caerdydd.

Noswaith dda. 晚上好。Good evening. Bonsoir. Buona sera. Boa noite. こんばんは。добрий вечір. Buenas tardes. Goedeavond.

[berethil]

| In These Stones Horizons Sing |

[spartakusbund]

Llandaf Cathedral, South Wales

[thelxiepia]

[myselfesteemwonthelp]

Treating myself to breakfast at Ffloc to cheer myself up and get myself out the house. 🥞☕️

[earhartsease]

omg we love the main Amgueddfa Genedleithol Cymru! (national museum of wales in Cardiff)

we worked at Bristol City Museum in the 80s and went over to Cardiff a few times with our bosses to visit and use their electron microscope (so we got to learn about vacuum gold deposition and how to focus the damn thing) but we didn't know about all the satellite museums, the wool one sounds cool! do you know how accessible it is?

You guuuuuys, you are going to be. So. Jealous. Of what I did today

So Amgueddfa Cymru is the umbrella super museum in Wales, and it is in charge of multiple museums around the country. Seven branches specifically. Entry to each is free, and each commemorates a different facet of Welsh history and culture; of the seven, I had (until a few hours ago) been to five. I've done Caerleon Roman Museum and Amphitheatre, Cardiff Museum, St Ffagan Folk Museum of Welsh Life, Big Pit Coal Mining Museum, and Swansea Waterfront Museum. I have yet to do the Slate Museum in Eryri.

And today, I went to:

The National Wool Museum

YEAH THAT'S RIGHT we have a national wool museum. It's so cool. We arrived at lunchtime so we started in the cafe and we had soup and also cheese and leek Welsh cakes. Except the soup was so Welsh it was correctly served with a piece of cheese:

AS IT SHOULD

Anyway, the building was a wool mill once upon a time, and half of the machinery still works, and still produces 100% woollen textiles. Also they run workshops for knitting and weaving and stuff. But you follow the rooms around and they show you the full process, from fleece to flannel.

BUT ALSO at each stop they had little stands where you could try a bit for yourselves. So for example, there was an exhibit where you could card fleece by hand, with a pile of washed fleece beside, and you could just... go ham with the carding.

I deliberately tried not to photograph literally everything. But here's a lil collection:

I should have taken a picture of the carding, actually, that was my favourite.

OH MY GOD YEAH and also, they had a section on the uses of the wool. A whole display of traditional Welsh blankets, trad and modern clothes, and, of course, instructions for how to cwtch a baby in a shawl, which was so lovely because that's what my Welsh paternal grandmother taught my English mother to do with me as a baby.

Anyway, then the gift shop sold balls of 100% wool in many fun colours, and tabletop looms, and books on how to knit/weave, and bags of roving that you could spin yourself, and plushie sheep and dragons. And Welsh blankets and shawls/scarves and that.

Anyway, you lot are textile nerds. You should all go. It's in the tiniest village in Ceredigion and it is the BEST.

[llyfrenfys]

A collection of Cardiff flag/Pride flag mashups!

[bugbugboy]

Going into Cardiff tomorrow don't know what to wear

[creatrixcymraes]

Anyone that's in or around Cardiff tomorrow, come to this!! Have a poke around my studio! Make a cute bracelet with me, or drop into one of the other workshops (including life drawing, art as meditation, making a token of affection, even burning your own music onto wax)

[official-wales]

Post Swyddogol Cymru (Official Wales Post)

doctor who really be like "we have a time machine where you can go anywhere or see anything. this is cardiff wales your year

[mountainside]

Caerdydd.

You know it’s a heatwave, when it feels so hot you go to the window to open it, and find it’s already open…

[vintagepromotions]

'South Wales Docks For Quick Despatch' poster (1947). Artwork by Albert J. Martin.

[heavygyroscope]

Cardiff 2024