Tag: Patchwork
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The Snake
“And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.”Genesis 3:4-5 Thus Eve eats the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil,…
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The Great Wave
The Great Wave off Kanagawa is Katsushika Hokusai’s first and most celebrated work in his collection of Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji. It is of the Ukiyo-e genre, meaning “pictures of the floating world”, which flourished in 17th-to-19th-century Japan. The woodblock print depicts three elements: three boats weathering the stormy sea, the great wave, and…
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Patching
My grandparents had a sewing machine. It was a treadle machine, which was solely foot-powered: through pedaling your feet back and forth to keep it running. It was so vintage that it could probably sit in a museum now. They had a few pattern booklets, not only for making shirts and pants, but also for…
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