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          The Apex of Good Taste (Owen Jones’ Grammar of Ornament)

“Grammar of Ornament was Owen Jones’ design masterpiece. First published in 1856, the lavish folio highlighted stunning patterns, motifs and ornaments in 112 illustrated plates.Each intricate illustration explored design principles behind the architecture, textiles, manuscripts and decorative arts of 19 diverse cultural periods, with a final chapter revelling in the glory of the natural world.Grammar of Ornament was a monumental publishing project that achieved standards of colour printing never seen before. It is still in print 150 years later, testament to its enduring design appeal.“

Sample Contents:

1. Arabian

2. Indian

3. Illuminated

4. Greek

5. Egyptian

6. Chinese

7. Celtic

8. Byzantine

9. Renaissance 

10. Pompeiian

Commander Phoebe Willkinson, grey hair, attentive and unmotivated of the Schooner HMS Themis (10 guns)

Royal Navy Sailor Generator

Inspired by @focsle ‘s Whalin Lad Generator  (perchance link here), I made a Dubiously 18th/19th Century Royal Navy Sailor generator, inspired by Master and Commander/the Aubreyad, The Terror and other Age of Sail stuff!

Make boat boys (not necessarily male) to have swashbuckling adventures or to cannibalise each other after failed expeditions!

obsessed

Unmute !

i laughed

I hope this has been pointed out already, but I think it’s important for you to know that Doug from Our Flag Means Death is played by Tim Heidecker

who some of you might know better as…the Free Real Estate guy

but anyway, that’s not why I’m making this post.

this is why I’m making this post:

Doug, looking at the empty place in the family that Stede left behind:

you’re welcome

1887. La moda elegante ilustrada. Disfraz de murciélago.

Había visto este grabado más veces, casi siempre por el nombre de “Victorian Batgirl” y por fin lo encontré en mi archivo de revistas. En España apareció en La moda elegante en 1887, en el número del 22 de enero. Como de costumbre, el suplemento con la hoja de patrones no aparece por ninguna parte, ni siquiera en la Biblioteca Nacional.

looks for climbing vertically down the walls of your house