1500s - Blog Posts
the cuntiest man in all of ru’aun (rewrite design)
rip zane ro’meave, you would have loved chappel roan
✥ | a map of ru’aun, circa 1416 a.i. (after irene)
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hi!! it’s me again!! today i bring you a little teaser for my mcd roleplay that’s gonna be coming up either this or next year!!
i’m really excited for it, and the guys in the mcd big bang server have really inspired me to keep on crafting. more updates about this will come soon if you guys are interested in hearing more!!
(under the cut is a little tidbit about roleplay locations)
every city in red is going to be an area/setting you can actually roleplay in!! it’s not concrete, and could change—but this is what i’m thinking. key below <3
circle with diamond — ‘capital’ of the phoenix drop alliance
circle with dot — major cities
circle — minor cities
diamond — settlement/village
animal footprint/marking — high concentration of that region’s nonhuman species
Had a last minute notion to make an Elizabethan-inspired embroidery pattern to celebrate the eclipse. I originally thought of doing a coif pattern, but thought the eclipse would get lost in the folds of the cap, so I ultimately went with a sweet bag. Since it was cloudy throughout totality, I thought it would be fun to incorporate the stars & clouds embroidery from a c.1600 waistcoat at the Bath Fashion Museum. The sun design is inspired by various period illustrations of sun motifs, minus the face they always seemed to put on every sun/moon design because I just couldn't make it not look silly.
I have no idea what stitches I would use for this bag, since sweet bags tend to use all sorts of different stitches. The original stars & clouds design is in blackwork, but I haven't seen any evidence of blackwork used on sweet bags. I'd probably do the background in a black or darkest blue metallic gobelin stitch (also ahistorical, but pretty!), the clouds/stars in silver stem stitch, the corona and rays in satin stitch or plaited braid, and the moon in black detatched buttonhole or some other fill stitch. Or I'd do the entire thing in blackwork except the corona and rays of the sun, which I'd do in gilt, documentation be damned.
Fukashi Castle,Matsumoton Nagano Prefecture, Japan,
Photography by h1roya
艺圃yipu garden, suzhou, jiangsu province by 苏州陈杰-POTATO
