#cordwaining

[havinghorns]

My Giorno shoes are done! The thread got tooooo big to add them but you can see me making them here

[dannydevitosrightindexfinger]

Built up a pair of shoes lasts over the last ✨month✨

Managed to stretch an hour or twos work into the month of February, finally ready to make a pattern though! Need to project it onto the lasts

[getahobby-docementwork]

Walking amongst the flowers . 2024

[geekysteven]

[misforgotten2]

A book you very likely don’t have on your shelf #615

Cover by Ron Bradford -- 1963

[fishstickmonkey]

The October 1962 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction. Cordwainer Smith's novelette The Ballad of Lost C'Mell was the cover story. Artwork by Virgil Finlay.

[bracketsoffear]

Carnivore (Justin Boote) "Detective Inspector Jim Morfield is worried. In the quiet, countryside village of Fritton, human remains have begun appearing. Bodies so viciously mutilated that only their bones are left behind, in some cases less than a few hours after they were reported missing. What creature could possibly devour human remains so quickly? Surely, as with the case of farmer Stanley Walters, it couldn’t be his cows nearby and covered in blood that dismembered and devoured him? Then, when another person is attacked by a horse, his arm nearly torn off, he has no choice but to consider the impossible. The problem is that there is another killer to contend with. One who has Fritton terrified. A serial killer hiding among the woods and fields, unseen, unchallenged. Now Jim has to decide if the bodies accumulating in the area are the works of a human or something as harmless as the local wildlife."

A Planet Named Shayol (Cordwainer Smith) "The protagonist, Mercer, who lives within the Empire, has been convicted of "a crime that has no name". He is condemned by the Empire to the planet Shayol, where he lives in a penal colony whose inhabitants must undergo grotesque physical mutations caused by tiny symbiotes called dromozoans. Most grow extra organs, which the Empire harvests for medical purposes. The bull-man B'dikkat administers the prisoners a drug called super-condamine that alleviates the pain of their punishment and various surgeries.

More than a century passes. Mercer has found a lover, named Lady Da. B'dikkat shows the couple a sight that horrifies him: children have been sent to Shayol -- alive, though with their brains removed. Lady Da knows how to contact the Lords of the Instrumentality so that they can intervene. When the Lords arrive on Shayol, they are shocked by what they find. Moreover, the children there are heirs to the throne. Apparently, the Imperium has become so bureaucratic and corrupt that it condemned them to prevent them from committing treason when they matured.

The Instrumentality voids permission to allow the Empire to exist and to maintain Shayol. They will free the prisoners who are still sentient and provide a cure for their suffering with a substitute for the super-condamine, namely an electronic "cap" which stimulates the brain's pleasure center. The mindless prisoners will be decapitated, their heads "taken away and killed as pleasantly as we can manage, probably by an overdosage of super-condamine", leaving the bodies to be used by the dromozoa."

[bookmaven]

ATOMSK by Carmichael Smith [aka Paul Linebarger; aka Cordwainer Smith] (New York: Newell, Sloan, Pearce,1949)

Drawing on Paul Linebarger's own expertise in the field of psychological warfare, the book is a study of the personality of a U.S. operative (Major Michael Dugan) who has little in common with James Bond except his extreme resourcefulness under cover and in danger.

It is considered b some to be the first Cold War secret agent novel.

[tomoleary]

Virgil Finlay, illustration for Cordwainer Smith’s story Under Old Earth, Galaxy Magazine (Feb. 1966)

Source

[silkdamask-blog]

A special #FootcandyFriday from on-site at the @WoodmanMuseum where we are opening an exhibition 4/6 I have had good fortune to work w/ all 3 pairs of shoes TY to @unhlibrary & @MoffattLaddHouse for the loans for ‘Combing History: Flax and Linen in New Hampshire.’ @unhresearch

[yellow-yarrow]

girl who only thinks about (disco) elysium: i'm getting a lot of elysium vibes from this

[havinghorns]

A different kind of porn for y'all as I get these lasted ;)

[dannydevitosrightindexfinger]

I bought a whole bunch of stuff for cordwaining and honestly can't wait to see this go completely wrong for no real reason. Complete beginner at shoemaking

[righteousmenswear]

[geekysteven]

[arcticdementor]

On the history of catgirls, in meme format:

Broke: talking about Masamune Shirow's Puma sisters

Woke: talking about Osamu Tezuka's Bagi

Bespoke: talking about Cordwainer Smith's C'mell