Banquet Journal

flightless bird

diaghilev

from serge diaghilev and his world: a centennial celebration of diaghilev's ballets russes, found at the library of congress

ikat and roses

  from here

i have no plans to eat anybody

.... and come october, this too, of course.

sergei mikhailovich prokudin-gorskii

jm lent me her beautiful russian textiles book and in doing so led me to the work of russian photographer  sergei mikhailovich prokudin-gorskii (i keep stumbling on more and more of his image...

for cy

These trains are about two, maybe three feet high, with electric and steam engines pulling both adults and wide-eyed children, including my own... I love the real obsessions that d...

the colour of pomegranates

those towels got me thinking about the 1968 armenian film the color of pomegranates. watch it on youtube here.

belarusian ruchnik

amazing belarusian towels at the virtual guide to belarus. found via the always inspiring nothing is new.

cross stitch

      i'm developing a real cross stitch obsession... (sweet folk coat from baby gap (!))

omizutori

  red paper camellias  for the omizutori festival. from sri threads. (and more here and here)