#mirabilia

[solorfainiel]

We continue to chip away at Persephone by Nora Corbett/Mirabilia

The blank spaces you see in the gown will all be beading

[mirriorball]

a cross-stitched ocean nymph adorned with beads; a stunning handmade piece found on etsy ⊹

[kristian8crossstitchmira]

[chicinsilk]

Christian Dior Haute Couture Collection Fall/Winter 1955-56. Model Marie-Hélène Arnaud in a frock coat in Mirabilia by Porter-Bennett-Gaucherand.

Christian Dior Collection Haute Couture Automne/Hiver 1955-56. Mannequin Marie-Hélène Arnaud en redingote en Mirabilia de Porter-Bennett-Gaucherand.

Photo Séeberger Frères.

[pkmange]

Bit of a redesign of an old character of mine. Her name is Mira, short for Mirabilia. I’m sure you can find some old drawings of her if you dig deep enough

[feltpool]

Rose Arbour - Completed

There she is!  Washed, dried, ironed and ready to get framed... just as soon as I work out which ‘safe place’ I put the companion piece to this in so I can get them framed as a matching pair.

In addition to the misprint on the pattern which puts a section of one row 4 stitches to the left of where they should be, which would make one of those planters look very weird, this chart has SO much backstitching in those trailing roses and other plants, metallic threads

and petite seed beads

so many teeny tiny beads (don’t ask why they’re just floating in the air over those leaves. I have no idea about that design choice, I just followed the chart)

and just a few regular seed beads on her hair and gloves

BTW, if you think the fabric in that first photo looks darker at the top and bottom that’s because it is, it isn’t just weird lighting. The way the linen is woven it just has a lighter section in the middle.

[theclueofthebrokenneedle]

One of the largest projects I've done. She was very fun, lots of beads and fun flosses! One day I will do more pretty lady projects.

Pattern: “The Raven Queen” by Mirabilia Fabric: 2x2 on 32ct PTP Storm Lugana Started: 5/11/2020 Finished: 7/24/2021

[chez-mimich]

Collin Sherman

[pixelpimper]

[somediyprojects]

Mirabilia Designs #166: The Baker’s Wife conversion by kateneyck. Pattern designed by Nora Corbett.

“First finish of the year! This is my color and chart conversion of Baker’s Wife, by Nora Corbett for Mirabilia Designs. I had originally started this project with just the dress and hair colors adjusted, but through my research I happened upon the work of Fabiola Jean-Louis, a Haitian-born, Brooklyn-based conceptual artist. Her works in the Rewriting History project are moving, and remind me of the relationship between history, memory, and identity. And so our opulent 17th century lady became a black woman. I have also borrowed motifs from Portrait of Victoria for the dress patterns. I love how they turned out; like jeweled broaches pinned to her dress.”

[fashionbooksmilano]

Itinera ac Mirabilia

miti, mostri, viaggi, commercio e potere

Achille Lodovisi

Introduzione di Valerio Massimo Manfredi. Fotografie di Vincenzo Negro.

GruppoBancaItalease, pubblicato da CV Export, Bologna 2006, 144 pagine, 22,5x28,5cm, ill.a colori

euro 27,00

email if you want to buy booksinprogressmilano@yahoo.it

Questo volume propone una variegata e curiosa rassegna di antiche rappresentazioni grafiche : animali, disegni fantasiosi di mostri mitologici ed il meglio di quanto i bestiari e gli erbari medievali sono stati in grado di produrre e tramandare fino ai giorni nostri.

19/04724

[fromoutoftheunexpected]

Ophelia WIP

[storiearcheostorie]

Scavi / Scoperta in Azerbaijan una mensa ‘rituale’ di 3500 anni fa con tanto di stoviglie ceramiche ancora al loro posto

Scavi / Scoperta in Azerbaijan una mensa ‘rituale’ di 3500 anni fa con tanto di stoviglie ceramiche ancora al loro posto

(da UniCt Magazine) – (C) UniCt Una mensa di 3500 anni fa, con tutte le stoviglie di ceramica ancora sul posto, insieme agli alloggiamenti per i bracieri impiegati per cucinare il cibo: un punto di ristoro probabilmente utilizzato dalle popolazioni nomadi che si muovevano tra il bacino del fiume Kura e le montagne del Caucaso tra il 1500 e il 750 a.C. (Età del Bronzo Tardo e del Ferro Antico)…

[ruanais]

this is real on so so so many levels.

Idk why are we even fully trusting a random anonymous blog that spawned out of nowhere AND is also randomly accusing people of being ped0s.

a community where we can organize a callout post that thousands of people are guaranteed to see needs to do better for itself in the future. i am not speaking out against people who were hurt by the person mentioned in the original post because they are allowed to work through their hurt the way that they need. that being said, i think we can all admit that we need to do better for each other.

creating an anonymous account that can call anyone out (that has now spawned at least one other i've seen) is not the way we, as adults, should be handling things. i blocked the original posting account when it followed me because it was ageless and blank (therefore breaking rule number one of this community...). this is not an acceptable way to raise awareness of issues that have potential real world consequence.

inflammatory language is used in posts like these to get you fired up, to make you believe you're really fighting for something, and it's okay to be uncertain on if you agree with an issue or not until you really think about it. it's okay if you did rb it because it appealed to emotion and you have thought differently in the days that have passed.

the post circulated for HOURS on friday containing a false and potentially damaging allegation against someone who is not responsible for or consumed the content in question. are we not a little scared by that? you can now have thousands of people see a post about you simply because you're friends with someone?

the tags on that post are some of the worst of human nature. transphobic, homophobic, calling for doxxing and death...vile. so many people have seen a false allegation against flora who is worried she'll never be able to come back bc despite the correction that she wasn't involved, the damage was already done. this is just....i'm disappointed.

think critically about what you consume. consider the things that make you uncomfortable and why. do not engage with them if they make you uncomfortable after pondering to yourself. these are all rules that are age old on the internet and bear repeating.

also for the record: i am not anti aging up. i am not anti dc (dark content). if these are issues for anyone following me who would like to break mutuals or unfollow, there are zero hard feelings. you have to curate your online experience to your comfort and i would never fault someone for doing this.

thanks for listening and i hope we can all learn something from this experience at the end of the day. take care of yourselves.

[chicinsilk]

Christian Dior Haute Couture Collection Fall/Winter 1955-56. Model Renée Breton in a frock coat in Mirabilia by Porter-Bennett-Gaucherand. Christian Dior Collection Haute Couture Automne/Hiver 1955-56. Mannequin Renée Breton en redingote en Mirabilia de Porter-Bennett-Gaucherand.

[feltpool]

Rose Arbor

*Sigh* Back in 2014 my large cross stitich project looked like this, and because I rarely ever manage to find time to work on it it’d already taken a ridiculously long time to make it that far.

I clearly managed to do quite a bit more work on it at some point, but I don’t appear to have taken any photos of that stage.

After fishing it out once more, and getting quite a bit done over the weekend (’quite a bit’ in cross stich is still a pretty small amount of area)

It now looks like this:

And I’m determind to get this finished this time!