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Caroline Hack
@carolinehack.bsky.social
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UK based artist making things about Moby-Dick, British Arctic Whaling, S Atlantic whaling research and other museum inspired shenanigans. Projects with museums a speciality - DM me if you’ve got an idea! Current obsession - the Continuous Plankton Recorder
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Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social · Nov 12
For new and prospective followers. Current work at #DiscoveryPoint #Dundee featuring new commissioned work and previously exhibited textile panels.
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The fun of finding a new beading pattern or idea and then rummaging through my stash of beads to experiment with new combinations and colours. Bought the long bugle beads ages ago and I’m pleased to find a use for them. #BeadWeaving
Two diamond shaped flat beaded things the smaller nested in the larger. The larger is made of long double bugle beads and four large orange and three small green beads at each of the four corners. The same pattern with shorter orange bugle beads and the same 3 small green beads with 4 larger beads of the same colour at each corner.
January 24, 2026 at 3:27 PM
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Snowdrops in sunlight and a robin on, er, razor wire 🤷‍♀️
A small clump of snowdrops, their white flowers bright in the sunlight on a patch of scrubby ground A red breasted robin sits on an arc of razor wire against a blue sky and tall poplar trees.
January 24, 2026 at 12:03 PM
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In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
January 23, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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Yay! #Snowdrops @sainsburycentre.bsky.social today.
White flowering snowdrops in small clumps in rough grass. A tree trunk is just visible on the right.
January 23, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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Ah, that lovely Friday afternoon waiting to be rejected for something I applied for feeling.
January 23, 2026 at 2:20 PM
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I need at least 3 more folk to sign up for my Edinburgh Adult Education Programme archaeology classes at Craigentinny, or the course will be cancelled. If you know anyone who might be interested, please let them know. Thank you!

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January 21, 2026 at 2:12 PM
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Few things give me as much joy as watching people unexpectedly falling in love with #MobyDick.
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I am now a little bit ahead and lemme just say that this entire book is worth it for Whale Law. 🐋
January 22, 2026 at 12:15 PM
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Press start to continue!
Sunday the 8th of February I will be at the British Museum running my videogame tour of the collection. If you're the exact flavour of lovely weirdo that this appeals to, then do grab a ticket and I'll see you there!!

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January 21, 2026 at 6:46 PM
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Another experiment with glass specimen jars. Beaded #BrittleStar on a blue background. I rather like this one
#BeadWeaving #Benthic #MarineBiology #Ophiuroids #Echinoderms
Small old fashioned borosilicate specimen jar with frosted glass rim and knobbed lid. Inside against a dark blue background is a five legged brittle star made of small woven white cylindrical beads
January 20, 2026 at 10:02 AM
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Another experiment with glass specimen jars. Beaded #BrittleStar on a blue background. I rather like this one
#BeadWeaving #Benthic #MarineBiology #Ophiuroids #Echinoderms
Small old fashioned borosilicate specimen jar with frosted glass rim and knobbed lid. Inside against a dark blue background is a five legged brittle star made of small woven white cylindrical beads
January 20, 2026 at 10:02 AM
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Spotted over the weekend. I think it is cool.
A crocheted Venus of Willendorf, representing feminie power through crafts
January 19, 2026 at 6:51 PM
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More playing with this #BeadWeaving #GrannieSquare pattern. This time joining the squares to make a teeny tiny quilt. Grid is 1cm square for scale.
Six bead woven squares a bit like traditionally crocheted grannie squares but in very small beads joined in a 3 by 2 rectangle so it’s only 5.5 x 3.5 cm The joining is a bit shonky.
January 19, 2026 at 7:02 PM
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First go at a beaded “granny square” pattern. Need to work on my tension (in so many ways)
Bead weaving in the shape and pattern of a crocheted granny square. But tiny. It’s less than 2cm square as indicated by the green gridded mat it’s sitting on.
January 18, 2026 at 7:31 PM
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Legolas and Gimli meme. The captions on the three panels read: Gimli: "Never thought I'd did fighting side by side with the French." Legolas: "Qu’en est-il côte à côte avec un ami?" Gimli: "What?"
January 18, 2026 at 2:13 PM
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A friend asked me for present suggestions for a Frozen obsessed child of a relative he doesn’t really get on with.

I suggested this …
Frozen song book and recorder set.
January 17, 2026 at 5:26 PM
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neolithic guys get pissed if you tell them their cultures are organized by the type of pots and jewelry they made. "we called ourselves the blood hunters" "we conquered villages far beyond this horizon" sorry bud you're the western linear pottery culture now
January 17, 2026 at 2:52 PM
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STOP.

We have a major news story in our house. It's been building up for a few days and this afternoon came the denouement.

It's the story of a banana.
January 16, 2026 at 9:14 PM
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In the pre Christmas corset madness it looks like I forgot to post pics of this when I finished it. #Shetland navigation chart #screenprinting on calico fabric then painted a bit and sewn a lot. The coastline of Shetland was particularly tiresome, but worth it in the end!
An embroidery hoop rests on a pale neutral work surface. In the hoop is a Shetland navigation chart screen-printed faintly onto undyed calico fabric then painted a bit and sewn a lot mostly with running stitch in shades of blue and white over the sea and back stitch in brown on the coastline of Shetland which is fiddly and wiggly. A close up of the Shetland navigation chart screen-printed faintly onto undyed calico fabric then painted a bit and sewn a lot mostly with running stitch in shades of blue and white over the sea and back stitch in brown on the coastline of Shetland which is fiddly and wiggly.
January 16, 2026 at 9:48 AM
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We want to hear from people in Minnesota about the surge of thousands of federal immigration agents in the area
People in Minneapolis and St Paul: what is life like in the Twin Cities right now?
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January 16, 2026 at 5:21 PM
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Retail Manager

Location: Sudbury, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom Salary: £25,600 (£32,000 FTE) Gainsborough’s House is seeking a Retail Manager Part time: 4 days per week We currently have an exciting opportunity to join the team at Gainsborough’s…
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January 16, 2026 at 2:30 PM
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Reposting to add this isn't necessarily a UK-only opportunity. Our most recent VRFs were wonderful musicians from Brazil.
majnouna.com Joumana Medlej @majnouna.com · 8d
Calling #textiles artists! There's still time to apply to this fabulous art residency at Merton College, Oxford, for next year. I can't overstate what a wonderful and rewarding experience it is, and what a nice bunch of people you'll be dealing with. Give it a go!

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Visiting Research Fellowship in the Creative Arts for 2026-27 at University of Oxford
Explore an exciting academic career as a Visiting Research Fellowship in the Creative Arts for 2026-27. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
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January 16, 2026 at 1:19 PM
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Treated myself to a lovely #borosilicate glass specimen jar. A scrap of dark blue fabric I used on the corset reminded me of blue glass backing I’ve seen in old museum specimens. So I’ve been having a play. #Beading #BeadWeaving #Biology
#MaritimeBiology #specimen
An old fashioned glass specimen jar with a ground glass rim and knob on the lid is on a neutral blue grey background. In the jar is a dark blue satin backdrop. Attached to it is a beaded tube made of spiralling white and cream beads. At the top this it breaks into a number of fingers.
January 16, 2026 at 1:21 PM
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Deer of the day. #Muntjac in the sunlight having a snack by the green lane next to the big Tescos this morning
Amongst brambles and leaf litter a small deer is sideways on facing left with its head down nibbling greenery. It eyes me warily.
January 16, 2026 at 11:36 AM
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In the pre Christmas corset madness it looks like I forgot to post pics of this when I finished it. #Shetland navigation chart #screenprinting on calico fabric then painted a bit and sewn a lot. The coastline of Shetland was particularly tiresome, but worth it in the end!
An embroidery hoop rests on a pale neutral work surface. In the hoop is a Shetland navigation chart screen-printed faintly onto undyed calico fabric then painted a bit and sewn a lot mostly with running stitch in shades of blue and white over the sea and back stitch in brown on the coastline of Shetland which is fiddly and wiggly. A close up of the Shetland navigation chart screen-printed faintly onto undyed calico fabric then painted a bit and sewn a lot mostly with running stitch in shades of blue and white over the sea and back stitch in brown on the coastline of Shetland which is fiddly and wiggly.
January 16, 2026 at 9:48 AM