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jtheseamstress

@jtheseamstress@hcommons.social

30something homebody & 18th-19th c. (dress) history nerd. Chocolate & cake enthusiast. I like sewing, drawing, paper & textile crafts, reading, rabbits, Star Trek (TNG is my fav!), etc. Currently writing my MA thesis on women in the Viennese dressmaking trade ca. 1810-50.

I live with 2 rabbit girls: Marigold (born in April/May 2021, rescued & adopted in Feb. 2023) & Mirabelle (born in Jan. 2024, adopted in April 2024).

Wanna buy us a treat?
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RickiTarr, to random
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So, what's the thing, what's the big thing no one can help you with? How do you cope with it?

jtheseamstress,
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@RickiTarr Being scared of basically everything ever, being "oversensitive" and not very stress-resistant, and also being socially awkward at times. I dunno. If anyone copes, let me know how.

Fredatron, to random
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I'm really glad I waited for a sample of that nice-seeming linen before ordering. HOLY SHIT it's nice. It's really really nice. It's got the drape and slight translucency of linen in any number of C17th and C18th artworks. But more importantly, it has the closest feel to certain historical linens I've had my hands on. This is the stuff I need.

I've made an order. I'm telling myself it's my birthday present. I am no longer allowed Skulliver.

jtheseamstress,
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@Fredatron Now I'm curious, where does one obtain this wondrous linen?

ncrav, to Rabbits
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I'm getting more permanent fluff on my ears this year 🥰 daddy says my ears are getting punkier to combine with my neck 🤭

jtheseamstress,
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@ncrav Exceptionally talented! 👏 (That's a tongue drum, isn't it? I'd like to learn that, too...)

RickiTarr, to random
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These are some of the oldest surviving pictures of dogs. It just goes to show that humans haven't changed too much. We have to get pics of the cute pups!

This is a white fluffy poodle, it has a bow on it's head, and it's just exhausted by this whole ordeal and having a wee nap
This is a white dog with dark patches and floppy ears. It's seated in such a way that it looks like it could leap up at any moment joyfully, but it's trying very hard to behave for the photo. It has a big ole open mouth doggie smile, and definitely seems to be making eye contact with the human that is having it sit still to have it's picture made.
This dog has that kind of silky black and white fur that you just want to pet so much, big floofy floppy ears like a border collie. It is laying down like it's napping, and I wonder if it's human decided to try to take it's picture while it was napping, but it woke up to a camera and looks mildly perplexed, worried, and put upon.

jtheseamstress,
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@RickiTarr Now I just had to look up rabbits. 🐰 📷 These are all daguerreotypes from the 1850s, I think.

Black-and-white photograph of two young boys in suits, one sitting in a chair, one standing next to it. The sitting boy holds a rabbit on his lap. The rabbit looks like it might be a white angora or other long-haired breed.
Black-and-white photograph of two young girls wearing chequered dresses, their hair combed back, probably in chignons or braids. The older (and taller) of the two is next to a small table. On the table sits a white rabbit, the girl has one hand placed on its back.
Black-and-white photograph of a girl sitting in a chair wearing a chequered long-sleeved dress. Her hair seems to be chin-length, held back with a ribbon or similar accessory. On her lap sits a rabbit, held with both her hands. The rabbit looks like it is white with black spots around its eyes and on its back, the ears are also black.

jtheseamstress, to brazil German
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Finally, on Sunday April 28, there'll be another "At Home with c19th Dress and Textiles Reframed" event!

Programme:
🧵 Linda McShannock - A Living for the Earnest, A Fortune for the Capable: Dressmaking in Minneapolis, 1880-1920
🧵 Cecilia Soares - A transatlantic wardrobe: an analysis of the Belle Époque sartorial goods from the Ivy House Museum, in Vassouras, Brazil (1870-1910)
🧵 Alden O'Brien - TBD

Read more and register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/at-home-with-c19th-dress-and-textiles-reframed-28-april-2024-300pm-bst-tickets-715162378927?utm_experiment=test_share_listing&aff=ebdsshios

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dbellingradt, to history German
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Die in Gotha erscheinende Zeitung "Der Anzeiger" stellte auch wichtige Fragen der mit Alltagsbezug. Am 31.3.1792 ging es um vergiftete Grillen, die einem ins Getränk fielen. Durfte man das Getränk nun noch trinken ohne sich selbst zu gefährden? Und gibt es da "kein Mittel" gegen?

jtheseamstress,
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@dbellingradt
Würde mich interessieren, wie man drauf gekommen ist: Gab es etwa durch vergiftete Grillen vergiftete Menschen, deren Speisen oder Getränke zuvor von besagten vergifteten Grillen kontaminiert worden waren? Wie oft fielen vergiftete Grillen in Speisen oder Getränke?? 🤨 Eine Forschungslücke, die gefüllt gehört!

jtheseamstress, to random German
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I just stumbled upon this on Etsy and I think you need to see it, too. I couldn't help but laugh out loud.

jtheseamstress, to random German
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19th century handwritten documents, you just gotta love 'em.

ncrav, to Rabbits
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I'm extra cuddly today 🥰🥰

Lua receiving nose rubs with a very satisfied expression

jtheseamstress,
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@ncrav Aww! 🥰 (She's so tiny!)

jtheseamstress, to random German
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Looking for a sewing pattern and reading reviews people left on an Etsy shop's page.

Why, just WHY do people give 5/5 stars and then write: "Haven't tried it yet, but looks good" or "Can't wait to try this", "I love it, can't wait to start my project" etc.

That's totally useless! Have they actually tried the pattern / made the garment? Did it work? Were there any problems? What about the instructions? Are they happy with the result? (Bonus if there's a photo of their finished garment.) These are the things I need to know.

Gnarghhh (grumpy dressmaker sounds).

jtheseamstress,
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@Rivikah @NatureMC Could be, but I've encountered this phenomenon not only on Etsy... 🤔 I've bought a pattern on Etsy in November and another in mid-January and the option to leave a review is still open for both. Maybe it's different for different Etsy shops?

ddbkultur, to random German
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Nach längerer Pause eine neue Folge von ! 🤔

Ein sitzender Mann im Anzug mit Mütze und Pfeife, ein Buch, ein Ausblick - viele Möglichkeiten, einem Kaufanreiz nachzugehen. Welcher ist es?

jtheseamstress,
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@ddbkultur Dr. Watson's Wunderthätiger Gesundheitstabak? 🤔

jtheseamstress, to Rabbits German
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I'm in the process of getting a second rabbit, so: People who have been bonding rabbits, I'd really appreciate if you shared your experiences. 🙏 🐰 🐰

jtheseamstress, to historikerinnen German
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Couldn't attend the Making Historical Dress Network's workshops in September? Never fear, you can now watch the recordings online!

Workshop One - Replicas, Reconstructions, and Recreations: Defining Terms of Historical Remaking
📽️ https://makinghistoricaldress.dmu.ac.uk/Workshop-One.html

Workshop Two - Translating Making Knowledge: Communicating Embodied Experience
📽️ https://makinghistoricaldress.dmu.ac.uk/Workshop-Two.html

@histodons @historikerinnen

MsHearthWitch, to random
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So, my kid is away for a few days with some friends. They planned a covid cautious trip, driving there and getting an Airbnb.

The host cancelled on them a few hours before they were to check in. They are having a meltdown (don't blame them).

My grandmother (who is generally not well) has covid.

If you need me I'll be in the blanket cocoon, in the fetal position, crying.

jtheseamstress,
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@MsHearthWitch 🧡

TarkabarkaHolgy, to animals Hungarian
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Alright Mastodon, tell me about your favorite weird animals 😄

#animals #nature #biology

jtheseamstress,
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@TarkabarkaHolgy Greenland shark. Lives centuries, has poisonous body, can swallow prey animals whole after sucking them in, is really large, and slow, looks funny. 🦈
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_shark

rahmstorf, to random German
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The Guardian sums it up.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/07/meet-the-oil-man-tasked-with-saving-the-planet-cop28?utm_source=cbnewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2023-10-09&utm_campaign=Daily+Briefing+09+10+2023

jtheseamstress,
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@rahmstorf Adding ALT-Text for those who need it: "Temperatures in July were the highest they had been for 120,000 years. New Yorkers choked on smoke from Canadian wildfires, tourists fled Greek islands, workers suffered heatstroke in India and Hawaii blazed. As land temperatures broke records, the seas reached hot-tub heat around the Atlantic coasts, killing fish and bleaching coral, in a marine heatwave of unprecedented intensity. Antarctic ice is failing to re-form and there are signs that part of the Gulf Stream system may be weakening. Scientists warn we have entered 'uncharted territory' for the climate, and people around the world can see the results with their own eyes. 'The era of global boiling', as the UN secretary general put it, 'has arrived.'
And yet, despite more than 30 years of intensifying climate talks, last year the world's annual greenhouse gas emissions reached record levels. We are still hurtling in the wrong direction."

vicgrinberg, to random
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I like being a resourceful adult: I can solve most problems life throws at me.

I hate being a resourceful adult: I have to solve most of the problems life throws at me and can't just, for example, hide in a blanket fort and have someone else solve the problems for me.

jtheseamstress,
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@vicgrinberg Same.

MsHearthWitch, to FiberArts
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Today's adventure is going to be making some button up tops for my son to wear after his top surgery.

Fabric is currently in the wash, next step is tracing out the pattern from the master sheet into his new size.

My main job today, now that the cutting table has been cleared, is to make sure that the sewing machine table is ALSO cleared.

And testing the cover-stitch machine, it's been a min.

jtheseamstress,
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@MsHearthWitch Lucky son! That ghostie fabric is so cute 👻 I have a Halloween jersey fabric in my stash which I had planned to make a t-shirt or leggings out of... last year 😅 Not sure if I manage to make something this year, we'll see...

jtheseamstress, to histodons German
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The 19th Century Dress and Textiles Reframed Network's next "At Home" event has been announced! Taking place online on September 24th, it's all about exploring the "connections between smell, scene, fragrance and the social and cultural history of Dress and Textiles".

Programme:
🧴 Caroline Vaughan-Kett: Scents and Sensibility; an Insider's View into Modern Perfumery
🧴 Kimberly Wahl: Perfume and Visual Culture 1880 to 1915
🧴 Hilary Davidson: The Fragrance of Fabric. Some Directions in Research

Read more and register for free: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/at-home-with-c19th-dress-and-textiles-reframed-24th-sept-2023-200pm-bst-tickets-711979920107?aff=oddtdtcreator

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BlackAzizAnansi, to random
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Twitter expats - What are your most wholesome memories from Twitter? Mine would probably be the time that Donald Glover's dad liked my tweet which said "The only Donald that we acknowledge is Donald Glover" a few months before he passed.

jtheseamstress,
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@BlackAzizAnansi Oh, there are so many. The funniest one was probably this: Someone asked about our experiences with video games growing up, to which I answered that I used to play PP Hammer with my dad on our old Amiga. One of the two people who liked my tweet was Gunnar Lieder, the developer of PP Hammer. (That "like" came out of nowhere, I hadn't even known the guy's name let alone that he's on Twitter.)

vicgrinberg, to random
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The most terrible thing about the heat for me right now is the constant feeling of waiting: for it to become too hot to think, for it to cool down enough to be able to fall asleep (and then wake up too early because it gets hot again), for the temperature to change (the first Thunderstorms are now predicted for Saturday, not for Thursday anymore).

It's a constant waiting loop. Can't start something new, can't be creative, can't properly think, just waiting, while the to do pile increases ...

jtheseamstress,
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@vicgrinberg This exactly. And it gets worse every year. All I do during summer nowadays is wait for the heat to go away, so I can breathe and think clearly again, do things during the day and sleep at night. I feel miserable right now and can't wait for it to be autumn/winter. 😔

jtheseamstress, to random German
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Two of my interests combined in one nerd joke. 👍

TarkabarkaHolgy, to folklore
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I am craving a good letter subscription... subscription boxes are a bit much, but I would love some surprise snail mail. Why are there no based mail subscriptions?...

jtheseamstress,
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@TarkabarkaHolgy Right?? That's probably why I keep ordering little stationery items, postcards and bookmarks, stickers or art prints,... from artists and small businesses. They often come in pretty envelopes, too! I just love receiving letters.

jtheseamstress, to historikerinnen German
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Save the date! Sunday July 30 is the 19th Century Dress & Textiles Reframed Network's next "At Home" online conference.

Programme:
🧵 Jo Teague - The Material Culture of the Needlework of Cheltenham Female Orphan Asylum
🧵 Deirdre Morgan - Pants, Performance, and Perception: The Impact of New York's Disguise Law (1845) on Gendered Dress

Read more and register for free here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/at-home-with-c19th-dress-and-textiles-reframed-30th-july-2023-200pm-bst-tickets-681038653947

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