Andrea Cesari
@oldbluedoor.bsky.social
Living in a two loom garage with an attached house in the Cascadia bioregion. Mostly things related to textiles, and lots of photos of Victor Velluto, an elegant goofball Russian Blue cat.
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Andrea Cesari
@oldbluedoor.bsky.social
· Jan 21
Victor has made it clear that this is the only correct and true configuration of office equipment that will meet his needs.
Auggie looks like a man with a prodigious knowledge of bawdy jokes
August von Sachsen, 1565
Lucas Cranach the Younger
(Kunsthistrosches Museum Wien)
Lucas Cranach the Younger
(Kunsthistrosches Museum Wien)
November 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Auggie looks like a man with a prodigious knowledge of bawdy jokes
May that person never hold a position of responsibility again. A couple of hundred hours of pro bono support for soup kitchen and food bank IT systems might be a nice idea, Mr. Bally.
November 26, 2025 at 7:58 PM
May that person never hold a position of responsibility again. A couple of hundred hours of pro bono support for soup kitchen and food bank IT systems might be a nice idea, Mr. Bally.
Pie-baking power, a true story.
Pie-baking Power
Bangor Daily News, Bangor, Main, Thursday, November 28, 1991, p. 7 When I moved to Maine in the late 1980's I was schooled about The Impor...
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November 26, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Pie-baking power, a true story.
Sound advice...
Frazz by Jef Mallett for November 26, 2025 | GoComics
Read Frazz—a comic strip by creator Jef Mallett—for today, November 26, 2025, and check out other great comics, too!
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November 26, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Sound advice...
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Visiting family and found the tiniest Mi’gmaw basket in my brother’s house, still made of ash and sweetgrass like the big ones.
November 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Visiting family and found the tiniest Mi’gmaw basket in my brother’s house, still made of ash and sweetgrass like the big ones.
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Follow along with TeamNun Dublin and TeamNun St Andrews as we use experimental archaeology to see how wool fibre and dyer's madder ended up in ELS215's mouth. We'll go from preparing fleece to embroidering on linen -- exploring the materials and motions of ELS215's fibre artistry.
November 24, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Follow along with TeamNun Dublin and TeamNun St Andrews as we use experimental archaeology to see how wool fibre and dyer's madder ended up in ELS215's mouth. We'll go from preparing fleece to embroidering on linen -- exploring the materials and motions of ELS215's fibre artistry.
All in favor of making “two or three samurai won’t suffice” as popular as “we’re gonna need a bigger boat” raise your hand and get to work
November 26, 2025 at 1:48 AM
All in favor of making “two or three samurai won’t suffice” as popular as “we’re gonna need a bigger boat” raise your hand and get to work
I mostly think of Cascadia as an interesting theoretical framework but golly, some days the West Coast Health Alliance feels essential for survival.
November 26, 2025 at 1:20 AM
I mostly think of Cascadia as an interesting theoretical framework but golly, some days the West Coast Health Alliance feels essential for survival.
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Leaves on your lawn? Good. Leaf them alone. 🍂
Leave the Leaves!
One of the most valuable ways to support pollinators and other invertebrates is to provide them with the shelter they need to survive the winter. Thankfully, all you need to do is do less yard work.
xerces.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Leaves on your lawn? Good. Leaf them alone. 🍂
“Not yet darling, but sooner than I like to think about “
Here I am surrounded by geriatric ladies. One - in a dark passage - frightened me - thought she was a ghost.
November 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
“Not yet darling, but sooner than I like to think about “
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Someone really had fun with metal threads and wire here. Not content with a shiny dress, crown and sceptre, this very regal Esther has two attendants holding up her train and a parasol in a c. 1640 embroidery at The Holburne Museum, Bath.
#textilehistory
#fashionhistory
#textilehistory
#fashionhistory
November 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Someone really had fun with metal threads and wire here. Not content with a shiny dress, crown and sceptre, this very regal Esther has two attendants holding up her train and a parasol in a c. 1640 embroidery at The Holburne Museum, Bath.
#textilehistory
#fashionhistory
#textilehistory
#fashionhistory
Somebody go over and give the McMinnville sensor a hard reset
MCMINNVILLE OR Nov 24
Climate Report:
High: None
Low: None
Precip: Missing
Snow: Missing
at Tue, 25 Nov 2025 02:25:34 +0000 via IEMbot
Additional Details Here.
Climate Report:
High: None
Low: None
Precip: Missing
Snow: Missing
at Tue, 25 Nov 2025 02:25:34 +0000 via IEMbot
Additional Details Here.
November 25, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Somebody go over and give the McMinnville sensor a hard reset
Reposted by Andrea Cesari
Saw some amazing things at the Passementerie Mill and the Weaving Mill this Open House Weekend!
#Textiles #FiberArts
#Textiles #FiberArts
November 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Saw some amazing things at the Passementerie Mill and the Weaving Mill this Open House Weekend!
#Textiles #FiberArts
#Textiles #FiberArts
Beautiful #embroidery 🪡
It’s #WorldWalrusDay so it’s a good excuse to repost this #HandEmbroidery version I made recently, based on an 1579 illustration.
November 24, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Beautiful #embroidery 🪡
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This summer, young Indigenous kayakers made history on the first source-to-sea descent of the Klamath River since the removal of four dams. But this isn’t just a kayak adventure story.
‘The Evergreen’: Indigenous youth make history on a changed Klamath River
This week, we hear how the removal of four dams has changed the Klamath River, and what the journey meant to the Indigenous youth carrying on their ancestors’ work.
www.opb.org
November 24, 2025 at 7:30 PM
This summer, young Indigenous kayakers made history on the first source-to-sea descent of the Klamath River since the removal of four dams. But this isn’t just a kayak adventure story.
New pin cushion, made from a bit of corduroy that's been in my scraps bin for close to 30 years and a bit of ribbon left over from a length I bought one day when I was having a Horrible Day at Work and needed something to cheer me up. I find hanging pin cushions remarkably handy.
November 24, 2025 at 7:30 PM
New pin cushion, made from a bit of corduroy that's been in my scraps bin for close to 30 years and a bit of ribbon left over from a length I bought one day when I was having a Horrible Day at Work and needed something to cheer me up. I find hanging pin cushions remarkably handy.
7:45 am in a heavy fog, well before the first mug of tea: Owl or owl-shaped clump of dead leaves? By 11:15 am I got a good look at this barred owl, but couldn't get a decent photo of it. The owls get very chatty at this time of year and I've been hearing them lately at night.
November 24, 2025 at 7:21 PM
7:45 am in a heavy fog, well before the first mug of tea: Owl or owl-shaped clump of dead leaves? By 11:15 am I got a good look at this barred owl, but couldn't get a decent photo of it. The owls get very chatty at this time of year and I've been hearing them lately at night.
Every knitter and cat owner 🧶
November 24, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Every knitter and cat owner 🧶
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Terumaru, a bright young lightbulb and the mascot of the Tokyu Denki electric company, trapped in a door yesterday:
November 23, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Terumaru, a bright young lightbulb and the mascot of the Tokyu Denki electric company, trapped in a door yesterday:
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it is truly one of the treasures of nature that they look so elegant from every angle except this one
November 22, 2025 at 10:20 PM
it is truly one of the treasures of nature that they look so elegant from every angle except this one
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From a triptych known as “Cats for the 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō” by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (ca. 1847) — a spoof of the popular Japanese prints subject depicting the Edo to Kyoto coastal road.
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Available as a print from our online shop — publicdomainreview.org/product/c... #caturday
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Available as a print from our online shop — publicdomainreview.org/product/c... #caturday
November 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
From a triptych known as “Cats for the 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō” by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (ca. 1847) — a spoof of the popular Japanese prints subject depicting the Edo to Kyoto coastal road.
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Available as a print from our online shop — publicdomainreview.org/product/c... #caturday
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Available as a print from our online shop — publicdomainreview.org/product/c... #caturday
I solved the Sunday 11/23/2025 New York Times Daily Crossword in 46:44! The title isn’t very helpful but the trick becomes clear pretty early on.
November 23, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I solved the Sunday 11/23/2025 New York Times Daily Crossword in 46:44! The title isn’t very helpful but the trick becomes clear pretty early on.
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I hope that someday soon nobody will ask this question anymore because the answer is so blindingly “yes”
Opinion | Do Audiobooks Count as Reading?
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I hope that someday soon nobody will ask this question anymore because the answer is so blindingly “yes”
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We have allowed superstition to become a word loaded with negative judgements. Is someone who believes in the ghosts of felled trees, the persistence of Wood Sprites and their revenges against the axe superstitious? Yes, but this should not be assumed as a bad thing. – Dr. M. Benn #FolkloreSunday
November 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
We have allowed superstition to become a word loaded with negative judgements. Is someone who believes in the ghosts of felled trees, the persistence of Wood Sprites and their revenges against the axe superstitious? Yes, but this should not be assumed as a bad thing. – Dr. M. Benn #FolkloreSunday