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Anfor @anforsorrow.bsky.social · 2h

I still have my pair of handmade medieval shoes, from my reenacting days. They do have rubber soles glued to the leather ones, for practical reasons, but they are still quite light.

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Anfor @anforsorrow.bsky.social · 2h

Bernadette Banner (great historical fashion youtuber btw) released a video about the process of making a pair of medieval shoes by a craftsman and the experimental archaeology aspect of it:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Jea...

Medieval Shoes are Surprisingly Simple to Make.

YouTube video by Bernadette Banner

www.youtube.com

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Daarclaw 𓅡 @daarclaw.bsky.social · 2h

Can an owl be a vampire? 🤔
#birdart #bird #art

A digital artwork featuring an anthropomorphic owl named Proserpina in her vampire-inspired red outfit

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Anfor @anforsorrow.bsky.social · 11h

This might sound a bit random, but I am a big burger lover, and I am looking for new burger recipes.
If you are into burgers, what is your favorite/comfort recipe?

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Anfor @anforsorrow.bsky.social · 10d

This is pretty fun, so let's do another one, why not!
If you want to (and have the time) I would love to see your spin on this romanesque bird.

#art #furryart #furry #avian

An illustration, in the style of a romanesque stained glass window. On it, the figure of an anthro bird, possibly a magpie, look to a side, while holding a book, dignified as a saint. They are surrounded by latin text saying "Unus Pro Triste Duo Pro Gaudio"

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Anfor @anforsorrow.bsky.social · 11h

Btw, someone mentioned it on the comments, but these same nobles would also sometimes hire "garden hermits" or "ornamental hermits" for their gardens and estates.
The practice started around the 15th/16th centuries, but it was the late 18th century when it got very popular.

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Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · 4h

#WorldOctopusDay 🐙:
A #cat dressed as a woman tapping the head of an #octopus, color woodcut print by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japan, 1798-1861), c. 1847.
36.4 cm (14.3 in) x 25.3 cm (9.9 in) commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_...
#CatsInArt #CephalopodAwarenessDays #JapaneseArt

anthropomorphic cat dressed in a flowery kimono, with one paw on the head of an adjacent orange octopus, with Japanese text and seals (Japanese color woodcut print by Utagawa Kuniyoshi)

closeup of the octopus, orange with blue eyes

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Akatan @akatan.bsky.social · Aug 21

Fox in Blue

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Anfor @anforsorrow.bsky.social · 10h

They would even build fake grottos, caves, huts or chapels for them to live there 24/7. Sometimes guests would ask them stuff, sometimes they would be always silent.
One in Painshill, hired by Charles Hamilton for a seven-year term, lasted three weeks until he was discovered in a local pub.

The Hermit’s Grotto, Monumental Garden of Valsanzibio - Villa Barbarigo Pizzoni Ardemani - Valsanzibio di Galzignano Terme, Padua, Italy.

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Anfor @anforsorrow.bsky.social · Jun 30

@keeshwashere.bsky.social showed me this 16th century Italian helmet shaped like a griffin, and I got curious, so I found this other Italian burgonet.
And this got me thinking, fursuits, partials and masks are neat and all, but wouldn't it be amazing to have your sona in the shape of a helmet?

Close helmet in the shape of a griffin. Italian, Milan or Brescia. ca. 1550.
MET Museum.

Italian Burgonet in the shape of a griffin. 16th century. Negroli's workshop.
Musée de l'Armée.

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Anfor @anforsorrow.bsky.social · 11h

What do you mean there are only two Eurasian Magpies? C'mon guys, it can't be only me and someone else!

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Anfor @anforsorrow.bsky.social · 1d

One of the weirdest trends between the European nobility of the 18th and 19th centuries was to build "artificial ruins" in their gardens and states. Like, buildings that only had the purpose to look like an ancient ruin, just because.
They are a type of "folly", a building without a practical use.

Tata Castle Ruins. Tata, Hungary. Built by Charles de Moreau (1758-1841). It imitates the ruins of a Romanesque church, and uses the stones of a real ruin, the remnants of the early 12th century Abbey of Vértesszőlős.

"The amphitheater", in Maria Enzersdorf, Austria. Artificial ruin built as a lookout point for John I of Liechtenstein. Built as designed by Josepha Hardtmuth in 1810/1811.

The Temple of Philosophy at Ermenonville in Oise, France. This folly is part of the park that the marquis René-Louis de Girardin begun to create in 1765. This building was left unfinished on purpose, symbolizing that knowledge would never be complete and that philosophy will progress.

Castle in Hagley Park. Worcestershire, England. Used to be part of the gardens of Hagley Hall. It was started in 1747. It was designed by Sanderson Miller for George Lyllelton to look like a small ruined medieval castle.

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🔥🐉𝔓𝔢𝔩𝔷𝔦🐉🔥 @pelzidragon.bsky.social · 5h

Patches 🐉⚔️🐺

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 5h

Let's just pop over to 663AD and have a look at how life is at the farmstead, oh, kittens!!
youtu.be/gpt4EZhlNOk?...

Taming Feral Kittens to Tackle the Mice on my Early Medieval Farmstead - Anglo-Saxon Cats

YouTube video by Gesiþas Gewissa | Anglo-Saxon Heritage

youtu.be

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🪕🐻Banjo Critter🐻🪕 @takaalive.bsky.social · 1d

Further festive feelings! 🍂

A marten laying in a pumpkin patch looking happy and content

A fox laying in a pumpkin patch looking happy and content

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bug spray cody @aevris.bsky.social · Feb 24

ornate hawk eagle study page feat. ry

compilation of art studies from photographs of ornate hawk eagles. several are in full colour, while others are rough outlines

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Anfor @anforsorrow.bsky.social · 10h

But without breaks

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METsky 🏛️ @metsky.bsky.social · 10h

Bowl with ox, tiger, and lion, late 18th century
Class: Ceramics
Culture: China
Medium: Soft-paste porcelain painted in underglaze cobalt blue (Jingdezhen ware)
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/48438

Bowl with ox, tiger, and lion, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

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Anfor @anforsorrow.bsky.social · 10h

Like yeah, I can get the appeal of just having to live alone in nature, left to your own devices with a roof, food and a salary.
But still, you are hired to basically be a living garden gnome 24/7, not being being able to leave the premises, and having to endure the ocassional drunk nobleman.

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Anfor @anforsorrow.bsky.social · 10h

I swear I have seen more examples of both species around this website.

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Anfor @anforsorrow.bsky.social · 10h

They would even build fake grottos, caves, huts or chapels for them to live there 24/7. Sometimes guests would ask them stuff, sometimes they would be always silent.
One in Painshill, hired by Charles Hamilton for a seven-year term, lasted three weeks until he was discovered in a local pub.

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Anfor @anforsorrow.bsky.social · 11h

Btw, someone mentioned it on the comments, but these same nobles would also sometimes hire "garden hermits" or "ornamental hermits" for their gardens and estates.
The practice started around the 15th/16th centuries, but it was the late 18th century when it got very popular.

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Nik Raccoom 🔞 @nikraccoom.bsky.social · 11h

#NIKtober Day 8.

Yes or yes? 😏

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Alex Tomlinson @alextomlinson.bsky.social · 12h

Based on my Osprey rubber stamp!

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Foxes In Love @foxes-in-love.bsky.social · 11h

A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue looks curiously at a pie which Green has placed on a plate on the table, while Green looks at him with joy and pride.
Green: I have made a sidequest pie!

Blue listens patiently as Green goes on.
Green: Flour from the mill we visited once, mushrooms that we gathered with your mom, homegrown parsley and basil... Almost all ingredients were things we've made or gathered on adventures!

Both foxes turn back to look at the pie.
Blue: How does it taste?
Green: Bad.

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