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ianthis.bsky.social
Bayla ~ bellaquill ~ quillful ~ Ianthis
@ianthis.bsky.social
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strings everywhere... I do ancient lyre, ancient fiber arts, modern fiber arts, Greek and Latin. all pronouns

check out my youtube https://www.youtube.com/Ianthis, and blog https://quillful.neocities.org/ where I host my projects
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ianthis.bsky.social
are there any online classical Latin corpora or catalogues with dates included in the metadata for each work
November 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
ianthis.bsky.social
noodles
a pot full of fine white yarn soaking in water and alum
November 25, 2025 at 2:21 AM
ianthis.bsky.social
dye: extracted

#naturaldye #saffron #textiles
A small pot with a bit of water and saffron threads simmering. This is the first round of extraction - the saffron threads are still bright and intact and the water has turned a golden color. The last round of dye extraction - the saffron threads have dissolved into a pale mush and the water is a pale yellow color. I hold a small blob of yellowish mush - what's left of the saffron threads after being cooked for dye extraction. A pickle jar about 1/3 full of golden-orange saffron dye extract.
November 23, 2025 at 5:49 PM
ianthis.bsky.social
somebody send help i am thinking about getting a second* phd

*no i have not finished the first one
November 23, 2025 at 3:28 AM
ianthis.bsky.social
The world is full of beauty....
#saffron threads will become #dye, stigmas I will try to turn into a scent, pressed flowers I will be gifting to people who will hopefully find beautiful things to do with them
A small pile of dried saffron threads in a glass bowl. Approximately .5 grams in weight. The dried threads are a dark red color. Dried bright yellow saffron stamens spread out across a paper towel. The paper towel is spotted with yellow pollen from the stamens. An array of pressed saffron crocus blossoms and petals. The flowers a lovely pale purple with darker purple by the stem and fine darker purple veins throughout the petals. I hold a single pressed crocus petal. It is a pale purple and very transparent, looking almost like an insect wing.
November 21, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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walkyouhome.bsky.social
My mum has been making needle felted mice for a few years and enjoys challenging herself with new themes and ideas. She's just set up her first exhibition at the stately home she volunteers at, with a family of period mice. Incredible.
A needle felted mouse fishing a piece of cheese from a mousetrap A needle felted mouse wearing a crinoline hoop getting ready Infront of an old mirror A needle felted mouse wearing a flat cap, tie and waistcoat A needle felted mouse wearing houndstooth trousers and a smoking jacket reads a newspaper through his monocle while sitting on an armchair
November 14, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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hortusmossiart.bsky.social
After a long time working on it, I can finally show you my Zeus bust!!

The text on his torso is a fragment of the Homeric Hymn to Athena, and the crack on his forehead lets you peak inside to see the goddess being born!

I would love if you shared it, I'm quite proud of how it turned out 🥰
Busto de Zeus de cerámica pintada en imitación de mármol gris con vetas anaranjadas. Tiene una grieta en la frente y un texto en alfabeto griego arcaico grabado en el torso. Clay Zeus bust painted to look like grey marble with ocre veins. He has a crack on his forehead and a text written in archaic Greek alphabet engraved on his torso. Busto de Zeus de cerámica pintada en imitación de mármol gris con vetas anaranjadas. Tiene una grieta en la frente y un texto en alfabeto griego arcaico grabado en el torso. Clay Zeus bust painted to look like grey marble with ocre veins. He has a crack on his forehead and a text written in archaic Greek alphabet engraved on his torso. Detalle de la grieta de su cabeza, a través de la cual se puede ver una imagen de Atenea armada, lista para nacer. Detail of the crack on his head, through which we can see an image of Athena, battle ready and about to be born.
November 14, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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countess-sappho.bsky.social
Back on my bullshit again with the Viking age textiles but I've never seen this photo of the Oseberg ship burial excavation from 1904. It's crazy to see the unfished tablet, with all the threads still connected to the cards

#fibearts #historical #archaeology
Archaeological excavation site photo from 1904, of the ship burial at Oseberg. Among the stones and broken wood is an unfinished woven tablet, with the threads all connected to the weaving cards
November 10, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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drkarrschmidt.bsky.social
Happy Halloween!

We recorded the ACTUAL Dance of Death (via music from a #NewberryLibrary book c. 1650) for your listening pleasure! Read all about it while you listen to the recording in my latest blog post!

www.newberry.org/blog/spooky-...
Screenshot of the Spooky Singing Skeletons blogpost, including the 1493 imago mortis from the Nuremberg Chronicle with several dancing and music playing skeletons.
October 31, 2025 at 1:01 PM
ianthis.bsky.social
let's fucking goooooooooooooooooo
An open saffron crocus. The crocus has pale purple petals striped with dark purple, three orange-red stigmas (the so-called saffron 'thread'), and three yellow stamens. The three red saffron threads lie on a paper towel with the picked flower beside them.
October 31, 2025 at 5:06 PM
ianthis.bsky.social
almost a bloom!!!
a furled purple crocus bud
October 29, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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122deca--art.bsky.social
come home dude your family's kinda blue without you

for days 6 and 12 of IllustratorNeal's promptober
October 13, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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mattboot.bsky.social
this guy (Salimbene di Adam)'s father is trying to get his son to quit the monastery and refers to the other monks there as "pissintunici", tunic-pissers 😭
Dixit igitur mihi pater meus: "Fili dilecte, non credas istis pissintunicis (id est qui in tunicis mingunt) qui te deceperunt, sed veni mecum et omnia mea tibi dabo."
October 27, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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bwallower.bsky.social
#TerracottaTuesday
Two little baby feeders c. 320 BC, both made in Sicily, then Magna Graecia.
One Gnathian (style from Apulia) w ivy chain decoration; one w hippocamp figures.
And who wouldn't want to feed their baby through a mouse's tail??
#Ancient #Greek #Pottery 🏺
BM
Two mouse shaped terracotta pieces, each with a filling spout on the top of the body, hollow tails at one end and ears on the head. Left is coloured black with a vine decoration in white and red around its body, white eyes and whiskers. Right is pale beige with a leaf painted behind its head and a hippocampus on each side.
October 21, 2025 at 9:36 AM
ianthis.bsky.social
Favorite work on teaching classical languages? Especially blog/online/otherwise atraditional stuff that won't show up in a library search
October 17, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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experimentarchaeol.bsky.social
Dr Anita Radini is growing dye-plants at UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture, such as madder, woad and weld.

And they’ll be used by our own students in dyeing textiles

It’s time to apply for our online Grad Cert or our on-campus MSc/GradDip Experimental Archaeology
October 17, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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carlosfnorena.bsky.social
📢 New SCS Blog Post

Classicists: please take a few minutes to read this very important post, by Rachel Philbrick and Zachary Quint, presenting the results of the first SCS Census.

There's a lot to think about here. I look forward to the discussion.
Blog: Results from the first SCS Census | Society for Classical Studies
www.classicalstudies.org
October 17, 2025 at 4:48 PM
ianthis.bsky.social
So exciting !! I have daydreamed about tackling a Martial 'Steadman' some day and so glad to see one out! (of course maybe some day I or others will tackle more of his massive corpus, but 140 epigrams is amazing!)
October 13, 2025 at 2:48 AM
ianthis.bsky.social
had my first meeting with my ADVISOR to start planning my DISSERTATION unreal
October 10, 2025 at 9:38 PM
ianthis.bsky.social
hands-on textile content hopefully returning to CAMWS this year (I remembered to submit my abstract)
October 6, 2025 at 1:24 AM
ianthis.bsky.social
is it really the sunday before sukkot if you don't have to go get a tetanus shot
October 5, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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alisonfisk.bsky.social
Something lovely for the weekend!

Ancient Egyptian gold headband decorated with heads of gazelles and a stag between stars or flowers. Second Intermediate (Hyksos) period, Dynasty 15, c. 1648–1540 BC. 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

#Archaeology
Met Museum photo of an Ancient Egyptian gold head ornament viewed from the front against a grey background. The headband is made of hammered sheet gold, the ends of which have been tapered to a narrower width and rolled to form loops. A string would have threaded through the loops to fasten the band around the head at the back. The front of the band is decorated with a central head of an antlered stag, identified as the Persian fallow deer (Dama mesopotamica). The stag has two large antlers, large ears and a triangular-shaped head. It is flanked on either side by two gazelle heads. The gazelle heads have long ears and long curved horns which point outwards at the tip. Between the animal heads are four 8-pointed flowers or stars. Dimensions: height of central stag 8.9, length of headband 49.5 cm. Dated to the Second Intermediate period (c. 1648-1540 BC) when northern Egypt was ruled by the Hyksos from the ancient Near East. Said to be part of a group of objects found in the Eastern Delta near Avaris, the Hyksos capital. The headband shows a mix of ancient Near Eastern and Egyptian artistic styles.
October 4, 2025 at 9:21 AM
ianthis.bsky.social
passed my comps (quals) yesterday, finished as a semifinalist in a research award today, and today's latin class was amazing (my students kicked butt at our taberna romana rp). wahooo
October 1, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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crab-milk.bsky.social
dionysus for a greek mythology-inspired campaign
#dionysus #greekmythology #dnd #dungeonsanddragons
A waist-up digitally-painted portrait of Dionysus. He is a large black man with locs and afro balls. He is wearing a leopard pelt, a purple embroidered robe, and a laurel of grape leaves and vines that are entangled in his hair, body, and horns. He is holding a glass of red wine and is looking up with a smile.
September 13, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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classicsgc.bsky.social
PhD student Ivan Maiorov has triumphantly completed his Agamemnon armor project! The attention to detail is just fabulous!

#ClassicsGC #HumanitiesGC #AncientBluesky #ClassicsBluesky /BlueskyClassics%09@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#BlueskyClassics @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
A set of replica ancient armor and weapons resting on sand with rocks in the background. The gear includes a short bronze-colored sword, a round black shield with gold studs, a crested helmet decorated with red and blue plumes and white horns, and a section of lamellar armor made of overlapping metal plates edged in red leather. A person in a red tunic stands barefoot on a rocky beach, holding a decorated helmet with blue and red plumes under one arm and a short sword at their hip. They wear white greaves with bronze-colored plates, while the sea and a seagull flying overhead appear in the background. A person in a red tunic stands on the beach by the water, adjusting the chin strap of a horned, crested helmet. A short sword hangs at their side, and a black shield with gold studs lies in the sand nearby. Gentle waves and footprints in the sand are visible in the background.
September 2, 2025 at 1:54 PM