#yellow victorian

[andallshallbewell]

[zeehasablog]

The Yellow Wallpaper

Based on the short story written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper is short story, written as first person journal entries. The narrator is experiencing severe depression after the birth of a child, and her husband rents a home for the Summer, with hopes she can recover. She is confined to an upstairs nursery, where we find The Yellow Wallpaper.

As a form of treatment, the husband forbids the journal writer from working or writing, and encourages her to eat well and get plenty of air so that she can recuperate from what he calls a "temporary nervous depression – a slight hysterical tendency", a common diagnosis in women at the time. (wiki)

Of course, she still writes; as she descends into madness, obsessing about the wallpaper, which appears to pull her in. Seeing a woman creeping through it.

At night in any kind of light, in twilight, candlelight, lamplight, and worst of all by moonlight, it becomes bars! The outside pattern I mean, and the woman behind it is as plain as can be. I didn’t realize for a long time what the thing was that showed behind,—that dim sub-pattern,—but now I am quite sure it is a woman... It is always the same shape, only very numerous. And it is like a woman stooping down and creeping about behind that pattern.

SO; here, we have the beautifully created pattern by @femmefatalegoth, inspired by the wallpaper described above. See if you can find the women in its intricacy.

I have added cornices and wainscotting, and a version with cornice and baseboard only.

I really didn't want to change the colour of the wallpaper , because it's The Yellow Wallpaper. So; sorry, not sorry, to those who want it in different colours - but feel free to do it yourself if you know how!

Unfortunately, due to limitations on how the wallpaper is made up in the game, I've had to do separate files to each type of cornice & wainscot:

I added the feature to make Sims tense when they're around the wallpaper!

Anyway - I hope you like these as much as I LOVE them! The colour is very bright, and it really helps you feel like the narrator in The Yellow Wallpaper.

I highly recommend reading the story. Maybe you can relate it to how you have felt at some time - I certainly have.

Download for free via Curseforge~

[la-belle-histoire]

In the Country, Alfred Stevens. 1867.

[strangergraphics]

victorian style dividers:

please like and credit if you use, reblogs are appreciated! thank you! 💕

[vintagefashionplates]

Watered silk or moiré

1860s silk dress made from a unique so-called watered silk fabric. Watered silk or moiré silk was made by embossing patterns onto the surface of the silk, using high pressure and steam rollers. This creates patterns that look like small waves or ripples in water.

[fashionsfromhistory]

Mantle

Early 1870s

This mantle appears to have been made from a wool shawl woven with broad bands of boteh motifs, originally with a central medallion now cut in half at the base of each side to fall attractively over arms in wear, and quarter medallions at each corner that are now placed at each side of the centre front and back of the garment.

Shawls striped with pattern, sometimes known as zebra shawls, were an alternative to the ubiquitous style of broad borders to a plain ground or central motif. Particularly popular from the 1820s to the 1860s they were produced by European manufacturers as well as the original Indian avid Kashmiri centres.

John Bright Collection

[cinematic-phosphenes]

Portrait of a Young Woman | 1896 Vittorio-Matteo Corcos

[queen0fm0nsterz]

Little Nights qrtd the first one. Happy canonical gay people I guess

[gemville]

A Victorian Seed Pearl and 18k Yellow Gold Bangle Bracelet

Source: Lang Antiques via Pinterest

[andallshallbewell]

[bebemoon]

"spring outfit inspired by ophelia floating in the river among the flowers", requested by @katabasiskassandra .

dolce & gabbana peach silk babydoll-style dress w/ empire-line bodice and ethereal petal-like layers, s/s 1991

romeo gigli flower-filled chiffon deep-shawl-collared coat, c. 199o

pavilion parade "moll flanders" loungers, created from a small fragment of antique 18th century spitalfields silk brocade

victorian-era floral bridal crown w/ silk, glass, feathers, and pink ribbons

acne studios flower hoop earrings

[la-belle-histoire]

News from Afar, Alfred Stevens. 1865.

[lxvenderjewel]

my dear, my perfect darling my love, my one and only my yellow tulip. i have picked up a small case, watson.

what is it?

i’m buying you some diphylleia. something trivial, nothing to interest you. i’ll be going out to look at some flowers.

what for, holmes?

i hold you in my deepest mauve carnations. i believe i will find some clues there.

why haven’t i heard of this case?

it doesn’t exist i am lying i am making you a a mulberry i didn’t think it would interest you, watson.

hmm. well, you must tell me about it later.

i cannot you would hate me i cannot bear that a daffodil. of course.

what particularly about flowers?

shit shit shit shit a purple hyacinth. flower language.

hmm.

he knows he knows he cannot know how would he clovenlip toadflax. mm. i will see you.

don’t be late for dinner.

[maximalismdaybyday]

Source

[fashionsfromhistory]

Dress

c.1836

United Kingdom

The MET (Accession Number: 1971.47.3a–e)

[nostalgicfun]

This is probably Too Niche, but to the vivid dreamers out there: do you ever get nostalgic for a place from your dreams that isn't real? I have recurring locations in my dreams that just. don't exist. And I find myself thinking about them or having "memories" about them even though they don't exist and never have. But they're real in my heart even though I'll never go there.

(tell me about these places in the tags, I'm so curious)