#embroidered books

[theembroiderycart]

Happiness is finding a treasure filled with books!📚😁✨

[thebeautifulbook]

Embroidered book covers

[cyansolsirin]

Book!Theon in my imagination

[mythologypaintings]

Minerva in Her Study

Artist: Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch 1606-1669)

Date: 1635

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: The Leiden Collection, New York City, NY, United State

Description

In this imposing masterpiece, Minerva looks up from her large folio and gazes out toward the viewer as though some distraction has interrupted her quiet concentration on the text. Golden light illuminates her powerful face with wide-open eyes and alert expression, as well as the long, flowing blonde hair cascading onto her shoulder. Her regal appearance is enhanced by the laurel wreath crowning her head, her pearl necklace, and the heavily embroidered cloak draped over her shoulders. Beneath the cloak is an ample blue garment tied with a knotted blue sash over a light gray skirt and a white shirt. In the background are more volumes, a globe, a golden helmet on a draped piece of fabric, a spear, and a large shield with the Gorgon’s head hanging from a column.

As one of the main Olympian deities, Minerva had various functions and attributes. She was the virgin goddess of war, but unlike her counterparts Mars or Bellona, she was neither belligerent nor cruel. Her inventive strategy led to victory and she was therefore, paradoxically, also the goddess of peace. She was also the goddess of wisdom, art, poetry, medicine and crafts, especially those of spinning and weaving. Rembrandt van Rijn was fascinated with biblical and mythological subjects such as Minerva, and he firmly believed that depictions of them and their stories comprised the most significant of all genres of painting. This principle, shared by collectors, theorists and painters alike, lay at the very core of Dutch humanistic traditions. Throughout his career, Rembrandt’s history paintings stand apart from those of other Dutch artists because of his ability to convey human feelings and emotions to gods and goddesses, and mere mortals from the Bible and mythology. In the mid-1630s, shortly after Rembrandt moved to Amsterdam, he radically transformed the style and focus of his history paintings, executing works such as Minerva in Her Study at a scale and with a visual power unprecedented in the Netherlands. It is not certain what motivated him to paint in such an imposing manner after he left Leiden, but probably he sought to emulate and even compete with the achievements of Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1641), then universally recognized as the greatest history painter of the day.

[daylesspax]

Some holoform Optimus with a blankie and a bonus mini OP!

He’s very cold and will accept cuddles, free hugs, and cocoa (figuratively, of course…)

[justthreadyall]

baby bill⁉️🔥⚠️

backed it with double sided tape as per usual. i messed up a bit and didn’t realize that my stitches weren’t differential enough to distinct his hands and bricks, so i literally just took a pencil and shaded the lines a bit LMAO. no one’s perfect ig lol

i plan on putting up a few pieces for sale on etsy soon, so i would back all of those with felt as well for a cleaner finish. keep an eye out for that :]

[escapismsworld]

An Elegant Woman in a Red Dress Sitting at a Coffee Table in the Garden Embroidering

1890

Peder Mørk Mønsted (Danish, 1859–1941)

[theskeletonsinourclosets]

is it too much to ask for two characters to not be into each other 100 pages into a book. what happened to slow burns and emotional connections, i’m sick of instant physical attraction and lust

[empirearchives]

Embroidered book binding from 1804, Napoleonic era. Les Étrennes à la rose ou Le Rosier d'amour. Paris, Janet.

(Drouot)

[theembroiderycart]

“There is no better thing than reading and stitching books!”📚🪡✨

[thebeautifulbook]

Embroidered book cover for Christopherson’s HISTORIA ECCLESIASTICA owned by Queen Elizabeth,

[mabith]

I got this beautiful dragon girl and her original dress was so boring I had to embroider one and I'm remarkably pleased with it. Look at her!

[damthosefandoms]

I think we should all turn to the back pages of the outsiders book and answer the discussion questions actually. Question number 5 tell me about your outsiders self-insert oc. Ok Susie I get it none of this was ever that deep

[thelionheartedo3]

father's eyes, mother's rage

summary: None of them had known Rebecca had a child before meeting Elyse. The reason behind that becomes more than obvious the longer they spend with her. 

pairing: Nate Sewell x f!Detective (though it’s book 1 so, not really. the vibes are there, though)

wc: 3.8k

Still, Rebecca rises to her feet, the only true tell something wrong in her silence is the way her heart beats in an uneasy rhythm. “We’ll give you two a moment,” Nate offers, gentle, “until she’s ready for us.” Rebecca shakes her head, walking towards where Elidor awaits her in the open doorway. She turns just before she steps out, the expression on her face giving Nate pause. “She’s not asking for me, Agent Sewell,” she states, tone emotionless. She turns to Elidor. “I’ll send for who she’s asking for. Please tell her they’re on the way.”

[read on ao3]

[cover-art-showdown]

Round One, Match LIII

The Library of the Dead (T. L. Huchu), Tor 2021. Artist unknown.

Black Beauty (Anna Sewell), Penguin Classics 2011. Cover by Jillian Tamaki.

[cicada-heart]

custom pet portrait i finished today 🌻💕

watercolor on muslin, with hand embroidered felt flowers stitched onto lace

etsy