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Abi Baker

@abibaker.bsky.social

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Museum archaeologist. Likes making things and colourful video games. Troy on Display: Scepticism and Wonder at Schliemann’s First Exhibition www.bloomsbury.com/uk/troy-on-displ… abigailbaker.co.uk

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

No shade to fans of hyper specific romance genres but this is not my bag

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

The object itself is not making anyone's top 10 list of exciting finds from Mycenae (image from Karo Die Schachtgräber von Mykenai)

A black and white photo of a little metal flower. There is a short stalk of corroded black metal with a small ring of petals around the top. It has seen better days.

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 29/05/2024

Got the deluxe fashion weeb book package for my birthday.

It’s all four volumes of Pattern Magic and both volumes of Thus Spake Rohan Kishibe, fanned out.

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 24/03/2024

Once again, my carefully laid sewing plans are disrupted by the need to turn a cute fabric into a little top.

The frame is completely filled with black silk crepe de chine fabric, spread flat on a table top. The fabric is printed with a pattern of tumbling Greek vases, depicted in a blobby painted style. The figures on the vases race, fight lions and engage in more intimate activities

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 07/02/2024

Unfortunately I was made aware of magical girl Schliemann last night and now I have to share her with you.

It’s an anime style drawing of a pretty girl with short red hair, a Tyrolean hat, a safari shirt, short shorts and thigh highs. She has a notebook and a rope and it looks like there might be a fluffy tail poking out of her shorts. Of course there are pink sparkles and a Trojan horse background.

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

Every curator has a small weird object they want to make people love and I’m proud this baby figurine made the big leagues

A screenshot from the Guardian article in the linked post. It shows a bronze figurine of a baby on all fours with head raised and crawling forward

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 18/12/2023

Today I bought a felt dachshund in a Christmas hat for my friend who wants a real one, joked with the salesperson that it is probably more ethical to get her one that is just for Christmas. Then I turned around and saw the irl version walking towards us. #TinyJoys

A beautiful brown long haired dachshund, wearing a Christmas hat and a red knitted jumper with bands of reindeer and stars on it.

The same dog sitting up for a treat. The dog is wearing a red Christmas jumper and a harness with a pattern of Christmas puddings.

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 07/10/2023

I’m kicking off the Cambridge D caucus seminars for this term on Tuesday. Pls come along if you want to know why I got so obsessed with one exhibition that I wrote a whole book about it. www.classics.cam.ac.uk/seminars/d

It’s the cover of my book. There is a big illustration of two pots from Troy with stylised human faces. The text reads: Abigail Baker
Troy on Display: Scepticism and Wonder at Schliemann’s first exhibition

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

Hope I don’t have nightmares about Big Head Vespasian

A marble bust of Vespasian, a bald man with a frown and a prominent forehead. I cannot stress enough how big it is. There is a normal size portrait next to him for scale and her whole upper chest and head are about the size of from chin to eyebrows.

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

We have fun in the CCN. Today we had a free tour of Return of the Gods and a great workshop on creative use of collections. Do join us if you work with UK classical collections.

A photo of the interior of the Return of the Gods exhibition at the World Museum, Liverpool. In the foreground, a marble, larger than life Aphrodite of Knidos from behind, lit up blue, more statues with bright coloured backgrounds on circular plinths are dotted through the dark exhibition space.

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 01/10/2023

Draping test

Cropped selfie of a torso wearing a cream cotton bustier, with crinkled see through cotton draped around shoulders and waist. There js a twist in one shoulder to make a cap sleeve and the red drapes more loosely over the bust and right shoulder. It is a bit awkward- I’m clearly holding the fabric behind my back and still wearing a thimble.

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 30/09/2023

In an almighty act of hubris, I am trying to turn the leftover fabric from the Islanders exhibition into some approximation of this Dior resort 2022 look.

The fabric in situ in the exhibition. It is a loose weave off white cotton, shown woven around brown pillars with carved stone objects and a map in the background.

The dress I’m copying on the catwalk. It has a long see through gathered skirt, a gold belt and an asymmetrical draped bodice. It is styled with gold trainers.

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