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Tom Cherry • Bedfordshire, UK

Textile artist inspired by folklore, myth, magic and the macabre ✨🌞

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#bookmail looking forward to reading this new @britishlibrary.bsky.social collection of #supernatural tales!
Book of ghost stories
December 14, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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John Bauer (Sweden, 1882-1918) :
St. Lucia with Seven Candles, 1913

Swedish postage stamp design
Gouache on paper

Bauer's mystical, folklore-inspired style made this image an enduring symbol of Swedish Christmas and the Feast of St. Lucy (December 13th). Celebrating St Lucia’s Day today! 🕯️
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Depicting the iconic golden-haired girl with a candle crown, symbolizing light and winter solstice traditions. The observance commemorates Lucia of Syracuse, an early 4th century virgin martyr under the Diocletianic Persecution, who according to legend brought food and aid to Christians hiding in the Roman catacombs, wearing a candle lit wreath on her head to light her way and leave her hands free to carry as much food as possible. Her feast day, which coincided with the shortest day of the year prior to calendar reforms, is widely celebrated as a festival of light. Falling within the Advent season, Saint Lucy's Day is viewed as a precursor of Christmastide, pointing to the arrival of the Light of Christ in the calendar on Christmas Day
December 13, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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December 1, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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Sphagnum moss spore capsules/sporophytes. NWT, Canada.
#moss #bryophyte #fungifriends
Photo of Sphagnum moss spore capsules. The capsules look a bit like match stick heads on elegant green stalks.
December 12, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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The Groke is a ghost like character in Tove Jansson's Moomin stories. She embodies the idea of the darkness, the cold. Tove loved all things scary & unknown #WomensArt #Winter ❄️
Black and white pen and ink illustration of a large dark ghost like figure to the left and a hippo like create to the right with a lantern, in swirling snow and rain
December 11, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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Sid is enjoying rolling all his balls underneath the Xmas tree and then pining for them to be returned.

#dogs #borderterrier #dogsofbluesky
Border terrier
December 11, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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🎄 #GothicAdvent
Victorian Christmas card: May Christmas be merry Landscape with stag beetle dancing with a fog, a fly stands in the background holding something in the air, not sure what it is, in the distance the sky is filled with dragonflies/
December 11, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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This is the second time I have photographed one of my favorite Mycena species - this one is found on leaves and has regular water droplets along the stem for a reason which remains a mystery to me.

From the Chocó Andino region of Ecuador.

#mycology #fungi #mycena #fungifriends
December 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Frosty spiderwebs 🕸️🕷️❄️
frosty spiderweb frosty spiderweb
December 11, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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Two recent collages

#collage #collageart #artsky #illustration #drawing
Collage art Collage art
December 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Tiny little cluster of mushrooms growing out of a bench ✨
Tiny cluster of mushrooms
December 8, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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Thanks again to all contributors to another phantasmagorical #PhantomsFriday! Particular congratulations to @chriswoodyard.bsky.social who absolutely stormed it with a single post (with a fascinating image I'd never seen before either).
Picture is 'The Incantation' by Anton Machek, 1931.
A gigantic spooky figure rises up from nowhere, waving its claws at a terrified man in the remnants of a forest where many trees have been cut down, leaving just stumps behind.
December 6, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Stuck for gift ideas? Lots of little handmade items on my website ✨

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#shopsmall #smallbusiness #christmas #yule
Collage image of art dolls and textile art pieces
December 6, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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#stevenage
Photo of a used pregnancy tester kit in the gutter
November 30, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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It's been raining all day but now it's cleared just in time for sunset 🌅
Sunset
November 29, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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'What do you want, dark ghost! Where are you going?'
-Guido Gezelle

🎨Moritz von Schwind
#PhantomsFriday
Painting title: Apparition in the Forest (from Sleeping Beauty). A woman with long brown hair, wearing a white dress, walking in the forest (though it seems like she's floating. A man wearing purple clothes is looking at her from in the plants. Which is definitely creepy.
November 28, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Another of Prof Ronald Hutton’s excellent Gresham College Lectures
www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/go...
Hecate: Mistress of Magic
Hecate started as the ruling goddess of the Asian region of Caria, and got taken over by the Greeks as the only one able to operate in every realm of the cosmos. This then gave her special responsibil...
www.gresham.ac.uk
November 29, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Bat Friday
drawings of lots of bats, bats as desirable citizens
November 28, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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New art doll available on my website

The Forgotten Queen
I love her and she has to be one of my favourites ever.
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#bsnm #handmade #artsky #witchsky #Christmas
A art doll in a rusty dress with lace at the boto3. She has a papier mâché head, blue green hair and an crown. She holds a poppy seed head in her arms.
November 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Another Mossy Troll waiting to be photographed tomorrow 💚✨

#goblincore #troll #britishfolklore #artdolls
Detail of a handmade green goblin troll
November 27, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Mossy Trolls!

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#goblincore #trolls #dollart #folklore
Two handmade distressed looking troll dolls in shades of green
November 24, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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A small wip. She is supposed to be a Christmas Fairy but so far, she looks more like the ghost of a Victorian child 😅🤣
Let's see what happens with her today...
Happy weekend everyone ❤️

#folkart #handmade #dollcreation
A small doll with white hair dressed in white laying on top of lace and white fabric.
November 22, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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daamn Caitlin R. Kiernan was looking sooo good in this H.P. Lovecraft documentary from 2008 like wow shes so goals. Bleaching the top + front while keeping the ponytail dark was srsly such a high-tier maneuver for the time (she wrote a really good book called The Drowning Girl & you should read it)
September 27, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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On this day in 1982, #TheSistersOfMercy released their third single, the iconic "Alice". On the other side is "Floorshow", another storming Sisters classic!
November 21, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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a mystery mushroom has sprung up in a pot in the front garden
white mushroom in plant pot
November 21, 2025 at 7:33 PM