Marg Dier Embroidery FRSN

📚 One of only 22 surviving copies of the withdrawn 1865 first edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland annotated by Lewis Carroll himself has been acquired by @bodleianlibs and @ChCh_Oxford! Read more: bodleian.ox.ac.uk/about/media/20…

The embroidery produced by Otomi (Hñähñu) women of Mexico is known as Tenango Embroidery. Created with an "Otomi Stitch", the colourful designs of animals, plants & rural life represent the stories & beliefs of the people who produce this specific form of embroidered expression #EmbroideryWeek #Womensart

'A Winter Morning in London', St John's Wood (1913) by Sir George Clausen (Private collection)

630-year-old cat with a kitten, a gargoyle-chimera on the roof of the Château de Pierrefonds, France c.1393–1407.

O is for Oxford Street ------ 'Wedding Cakes', W&G Buszard, Oxford Street (from 'High Street', 1938) by Eric Ravilious

Another stunning sculpted gown by the #FrockingFabulous #RobertoCapucci. "Work for me is everything. Work and beauty. I've always fed on beauty.", said Capucci. #fashionhistory via Odescalchi Castle.

Honeysuckle 1874 #WilliamMorris

NEWS: C20 has supported an application by grassroots campaigners to list the former Central YMCA building on Great Russell Street, London – the site of the world’s first YMCA. Designed by Michael Mulchinet of the Elsworth Sykes Partnership and built between 1971-77, the brutalist Bloomsbury landmark is a colossal and multi-layered  example of a post-war megastructure. c20society.org.uk/news/bloomsbur…

More from cartoonist/illustrator Tom Gauld ~ here, he devises an obviously better way for us to organise our bookshelves. To which I’d add another category for “books I think I borrowed from someone but can’t remember who” tomgauld.com

Big fan of this hanging (in the @V_and_A) embroidered by nuns in Heiningen, Germany in 1516. It’s a great example of a nun’s theological and classical education on the eve of the Reformation. The name of the prioress ‘D[omi]na Elisabet’ and 58 nuns are embroidered on the piece

There is wind where the rose was... #November #WalterdelaMare #EugeneGrasset 1896

✨Book now ✨‘Material Illusionism’: On the oeuvre of Hans Plock, court embroiderer to Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg’ with Dr. Evelin Wetter 📅20 November ⏰17:30 - 19:00 📍Vernon Square Campus, Lecture Theatre 2 🎟️Free, booking essential myaccount.courtauld.ac.uk/15046/15048?pr…

The first 1000 of our digitised manuscripts have now returned and are available to view online. They include over 600 Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern items, from the Sherborne Missal and the Amherst Manuscript to the Eadui Psalter! blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanus…

Waiting patiently for dad to return with the food

If you had a friend like Édouard Manet, you might get letters like this, instead of emails (1879-80)

It's September and the beginning of meteorological autumn! Be on the lookout for these butterflies and moths 🦋🍂 Discover more species with tips on how you can help them by signing up to our monthly enewsletter 👉 butrfli.es/2Td2KQg #SaveButterflies #MothsMatter

Artist’s sketch of a sparrow. From Deir el-Bahri, Egypt, c. 1479–1458 BC. Artists have always loved to sketch. In ancient Egypt, some 3,500 years ago, they used flakes of limestone as sketch pads rather than paper. 📷: metmuseum.org/art/collection… #Archaeology

Evening coat, by designer Elsa Schiaparelli in collaboration with Jean Cocteau, 1937 #WomensArt

Awesome to see Hever Castle’s panel of Prince Arthur before conservation (left). Additional strips of panel were added at a later date to give the portrait greater presence. When removed, the original panel (right) matched the dimensions listed in Royal Collection inventories.