#glb scans

[dinololita]

[gasstationlolita]

some lolita street snaps from my magazines I thought looked cute together

[strawberryteabunny]

transparent version of the art in this post 🖤 by mitsukazu mihara from the Gothic and Lolita Bible

[annaxmalina]

{2023} mothlight

3d scan: https://teia.art/objkt/833905

[witchrealms]

gothic lolita bible, vol 2

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[espejodejade]

Inspo for my next handmade project

After my first handmade skirt I got excited and now I want to make a full OP ▼⁠・⁠ᴥ⁠・⁠▼

This is something that made me fall in love with lolita since the very beginning: the strive for creativity and experimentation. I once again want to use the fabric of a garment that I no longer use to create a new and unique piece!

Maybe I'm getting a little too excited, after all I've never done a full dress from scratch before, so I'll be kind to myself if I make some mistakes and learn from them. (⁠✪⁠㉨⁠✪⁠)

I'm still new to lolita, so getting brand pieces and filling my wardrobe has been hard since I don't have a lot of money (I work selling my art and it doesn't pay off much lol). I've been buying clothing from local lolita brands since their more accessible for me, but I think that learning to sew it's gonna save me from bankruptcy :⁠,⁠-⁠)

I'm gonna follow some instructions that I found on the internet, I plan on documenting the process so I will share the tutorial that I'm gonna follow when I finish it in a future blog. Wish me luck! (⁠♡⁠ω⁠♡⁠ ⁠)⁠ ⁠~⁠♪

[moth-n0ises]

I think giving newbies a list of EGL fashion guidelines isn't the best way to help them. With the popularity of old school, many of these guidelines clash with what is actually worn by experienced lolitas.

Knee length? Many models in GLBs have skirts that are shorter than that

No blouse under the jsk/ tank top? can look great if styled properly

Clashing patterns? Tartan skirt with a printed cutsew is very common

I think the best way to learn as a newbie is by exposure. Exposure to as much EGL content as possible, machine learning style, give them a very large dataset. Even if the content isn't a perfect example of the fashion it's still learning material. Send them GLB / KERA / FRUITS / Alice Doll magazine scans. Send them the links to online communities where people post coords with both experienced members and new ones.

Give them a wider horizon than the ~10 new lolitas they're mutuals with on tiktok or the subreddit where half the coords use the same 3 taobao dresses, it's ok if these remain in the dataset but they shouldn't be the majority of the content they see.

[dinololita]

[sainte-melasse]

While I do often resize human patterns to fit my dolls, this one is indeed specifically a doll pattern (though it could easily be scaled to human size).

Here it is on it's little fashion model ^^ I wish they'd given us the pattern for the dress too ;-;

Working on a doll size bonnet (pattern from glb 34). It was supposed to be for Léopoldine but her head is too big so I’ll have to remake her one. It fits Valériane well tho so nothing is lost ^^’ (I kinda want to make her a 1830 dress or a lolita outfit now)

I still need to add the decorative bows and the ribbon ties but I have nothing in that color in my stash so it will have to wait.

[oldschool-lolita-archive]

hi! I have a couple of very old brand pieces that aren't on lolibrary. where would you suggest I look to hunt down additional info and maybe add them to the database? thanks!

Hello! I’m very excited by this question.

I have a few suggestions depending on how knowledgeable you are on the item- if you aren’t sure where to start at all you might have some luck with narrowing down the general era or release date of the item judging by its label or wash tag.

Various tag guides have been published- this one by How To Become An Angel on neocities and this one on Raine’s Crimson Reflections blog.

But since you have checked lolibrary and it isn’t there, i’m assuming you have some information already (release year or print name or something along those lines). It’s possible to access old versions of lolita brand’s websites through the wayback machine and adjust the year to suit your best guess. From the homepage you can go to the brand catalogue and see the dresses / jsks / undergarments / ect and see if any have descriptions that will match your mystery item (even if there is no stock photo available). For example:

- Angelic Pretty 2002- present

- BTSSB 2000- present

- Metamorphose 2000- present

- Victorian Maiden 2001- present

- Innocent World 2001- 2004

- Innocent World 2005- present

- MmM 2001- 2010

- Atelier Boz 2001-2003

- Atelier Boz 2004 to 2017

Lolibrary is an extensive database, but it doesn’t cover every single piece in existence. If I haven’t found it on lolibrary and I haven’t found any information on the brand’s original website, I will usually turn to my lolita magazines and see if I can spot the item anywhere. Lolita History is a great resource that most of you are already aware of. It’s great for GLB scans and even other niche publications that have been kindly submitted. You can filter by Keywords to narrow down your search.

All of the advice above is if you are the kind of person that likes to take your time with research and look into the item personally. If you don’t have time for that, i’d just post it on social media and ask if anyone knows anything. U can post it here on tumblr or u can send it to me! There will always be someone happy to help, and if it’s something I can’t do myself I will volunteer to submit it to some senior lolibrarians and see what can be revealed.

[gasstationlolita]

Gothic-leaning Snaps — GLB 34, GLB 62, KERA 214, KERA 225

[lilyinwaiting]

Wasn't sure what to draw today so I just did a study from this scan of Mana-sama in GLB #13

[fuckyeahkailan]

Two Moon Kana glb scans i found n likes n WANT (=^ェ^=)

[rosemaryslullaby]

i have a few issues in my magazine collection that seem to be slightly less published online than fruits & GLB (tho one of these is an offshoot technically) they’re from the 2004-2007 range i think. are these ones that people have seen, or would anyone be interested in scans if i can figure it out?

[lilac-nites]

Moonbow

Before I was able to become a lolita, I loved browsing online scans of GLBs and Kera. It was a great way to keep up with releases and see street snaps. By the time I figured out that I could buy GLBs in Kinokuniya, it had already gone out of print (you can find scans of them at lolitahistory.com). I'm always looking for lolita magazines and found Moonbow.

I saw this on IG and bought a digital version of their magazine. I'm so happy I did. I bought vol. 4 which has indie brands and even a section on lolitas with tattoos. I'll definitely be following this magazine. It reminded me of old GLBs but more international.

[rainedragon]

do you have any tips for scanning old magazines/catalogs? i'd like to help archive some of the publications i have, but i don't really know where to start ʕ⁠´⁠•⁠ᴥ⁠•⁠`⁠ʔ

i'm mostly concerned about binding (especially on glbs) and what scanner specifications to look at, but any other advice or resources would be appreciated too!

So, I'm not actually an archivist, I'm a web developer by trade. I own a relatively inexpensive flatbed printer/scanner, mostly because it was what I could go out to a physical store and buy for relatively cheap when I started out scanning old magazines and catalogs.

For anything that is staple bound, like a magazine, and can be put flat on a table while open, scanning is relatively easy. You just need a flatbed scanner that is bigger than the pages, and a book to put on top of the lid to keep it flat (don't use too heavy of a book or you will damage the scanner 1-2 magazines is usually good. Also, don't forget they are there, open the lid and fling them across the room). Line up a corner of the page on the corner of the scanner and you should be golden. Scan in photo mode if your scanner software has options. Ideally, for things like the GLB, you would either want a copy you can destroy (which I kind of think is what some of the 'latest magazines' scanning farms were doing in the 2010s) and to carefully unbind the whole thing and scan the pages flat (which I have no personal interest in doing because destroying books pains me and I'm not trying to digitize "clean" digital copies for any professional reason). OR, my understanding is you want something with a V-shaped cradle of some type that is specialized for scanning books, either as an actual scanner or a camera setup with software. The problem is last time I looked those were like 10K and up if you get a piece of specialized equipment.

I've vaguely dabbled with the idea of doing a very hacky version of a DIY build with boxes cut down to the right angle and some panes of glass and my DSLR for my pink house catalogs because they are too big but I never really got it fully figured out. I will admit, I haven't tried super hard. I kept getting reflections, and I had to worry about the glass scratching the pages, and I didn't feel like getting a proper light.... I know I should really try again, and try a little harder, but it's a lot and I have a lot of other stuff I need to do so it just keeps getting kicked down the road.

That said, if you want to get into trying a DIY build, there is a whole community of people who were doing that in the 2010s that have posted good info on types of glass and way more detailed suggestions than I can make here: https://diybookscanner.org/forum/index.php This box scanner is essentially what I was trying to set up and it theoretically should work, I'm pretty sure my whole issue is that I was trying to do it all quickly at like midnight one day and did not have the right lighting and didn't try too hard to fix that. Like... I could have tried a lot harder than I did https://www.instructables.com/Bargain-Price-Book-Scanner-From-A-Cardboard-Box/ (good pictures of one here: https://diybookscanner.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1202)

And then I needed to take it apart because I needed the table back...

But yeah, if you don't want to invest thousands or destroy them, I would say try a cardboard box scanner for things like the GLB, see if you can get it to work for you?

And then for things that can go flat, a combo scanner/printer that is good enough for photographs will be more than good enough for the print resolution of most magazines and the scanner/printer combos are way cheaper than dedicated scanners because they think you are going to become an ink customer and buy printer ink, so they make it cheaper. But the joke is on them. My combo scanner printer has never had ink in it before. (Note: do read reviews and make sure it's not stupid enough to require it's ink to be full to scan. I wouldn't put it past some companies to add that to their software). If you are really passionate about this, there are a lot of people who are way more dedicated to archival book scanning who have developed all sorts of DIY solutions for speeding up the process, automating parts of it, etc, and searching for terms like DIY book scanner should get you in the right place on the internet.