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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

ImPRESSed Yet? I am thrilled to announce that Impressive Textiles: Premodern Printing on Fabric will be published October 27 in print and Open Access with @acmrs.bsky.social, thanks to 30 textile and print scholars, and 1 groundbreaking exhibition @newberrylibrary.bsky.social! #CoverReveal 1/5

Cover art for Impressive Textiles: Premodern Printing on Fabric!

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Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social · 9h

Still playing with the idea of Portuguese man o wars inspired by the ones I saw last month. Can you guess what I used for the buoyant bag at the top which helps it float? #Embroidery #WorkInProgress #TextileArt

A weird idea of a Portuguese man o war awith a clear top, textured middle and a variety of threads and whipped yarns dangling from the bottom

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Elgin Museum @elginmuseum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We've applied for a Coastal Communities Fund grant to help repair our rear gallery roof - but we need your help! The public decides who will be awarded funding, so we'd love it if you could spare a few minutes to view for us!

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Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A bit sad they didn’t go with Nuuk, Duke Em.

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Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Artist! Quote with your art with the best shadows! Fin whale made of felt on the actual beach near Pevensey Bay where the fin whale at @zoologymuseum.bsky.social was washed up in 1865

Grey and white felt stuffed fin whale lying in shingle casting a deep shadow behind

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Philip Hoare @philiphoare.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'll be talking about one of the stranger eruptions of Victorian utopian belief at Sway in the New Forest, where it all played out in the 1870s 7.30 pm, 28 October in the village hall... www.stbarbe-museum.org.uk/events/new-f...

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New Forest Shakers and Sway Tower - St Barbe Museum & Art Gallery

Wednesday 28 October St Barbe Heritage Talk Sway BOOK HERE Speaker – Philip Hoare Britain in the 1870’s – Thomas Hardy was busy penning another classic, Alexander Graham Bell was about to dial up his ...

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

But here's the thing. I was in the church safe. It's over a hundred years old, and there's always something to be discovered. And at the back, behind the record books, were some tapes. A two-part recording of the choir, from back when they were at their best.

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Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Work in progress #HandEmbroidery. My drawing of the pattern from a 1825 enamelled spittoon @thebowesmuseum.bsky.social sewing and fabric marker pens using an autumnal/littoral selection of colours

Three rows of hand embroidery and fabric marker pen with light blue outlines on undyed calico in a blue square embroidery frame

Lose line drawing of the decorative motifs on the spittoon

Enamelled spitting from 1825 with a complex floral pattern in bright colours on a pale blue background

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Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’ve selected my favourite of the #watercolour sketches of Portuguese man o wars I did a few weeks ago and printed it out onto fabric (using my inkjet printer) and plan to add some #handembroidery for sparkle and movement. But I do quite like I it as it is tbh!

A loose watercolour painting in blues and purples of a Portuguese man o war printed on fabric and placed in an embroidery hoop

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Justin @justified.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026

Nobody else has said it... So, yeah. Ottawan literally birthed Daft Punk. #TOTP

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Kevin and Perry thing got irksome very quickly . Both then and now. #totp

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Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Ah, another Friday hour of wondering what I was doing in 2000 because it certainly wasn’t listening to any sort of music radio or #totp 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I have seen exactly none of these though I do watch a lot of tv. I’m wondering if I’m missing out.

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Eddie Jenkins 🦤 @eddiejenks510.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Fell down a fun research rabbit hole today: 6 degrees of separation, Scoresby edition! Scoresby Sr apprenticed on the Jane > the Jane's owners were John Chapman Sr and Isaac Stockton > Isaac Stockton occupied a house in Grape Lane, Whitby > Anthony Buck Sr took on the lease from Stockton > (1/3)

A portrait of the Arctic whaler, William Scoresby Senior. He holds a telescope in his hand.

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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

On the BBC News Katya Adler has just described Germany, where the far right AFD keep winning elections, as entering 'uncharted political territory'. Hmmm. Where Germany is concerned I think that territory is pretty well charted.

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Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Doing an update of my website this week (it needs it) and have realised that the reason one particular draft blog makes no sesnse is because its two versions badly squished together. Sigh. I've updated the projects page though, so that's nice.

Embroidered and painted image of a walrus taken from an old engraving made by someone who has very obviously not seen a walrus. They are not that stripy in real life

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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

the museum sounds great i hope they also build one for women

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Roses are red Their stems are quite narrow

Daily Record headline: Drunk woman steals 45ft ferry while shouting 'I'm Jack Sparrow'. Subhead: ALISON WHELAN drank Lambrini and ate poisonous nightshade before boarding the ferry and drifting up a river on the tide.

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Chris Sams @jerijerod14.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Again pictures lifted from Facebook but… the first mast of the Richard Montgomery has been removed and the second shot shows the inside of the mast. “No boom today… boom tomorrow, there’s always boom tomorrow”

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Found this old biro drawing of David Lynch in an old sketchbook. £50 Image size: just under A4 Email me at: nicktankardart@gmail.com I’m thinking of rewatching ALL of Twin Peaks and its return. 36 years since I watched it when I was an unhappy lad at my last school. Blimey 😳

A black biro drawing of David Lynch with a very large and scruffy quiff.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

[banging on table] FAT BEAR WEEK FAT BEAR WEEK FAT BEAR WEEK FAT BEAR WEEK www.popsci.com/environment/...

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The Fat Bear Week 2026 bracket is here and chunkier than ever

Voting starts September 22 with a final winner crowned on September 29.

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Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

When I was younger I really fancied Midge. And as an old lady in her 60s it pretty sure I still do. #totp. Saw him live to, both in Ultravox and solo. Sigh.

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Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Awesome song,awesome video. Saw them live and they were great. #PrinceCharming #totp

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Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

God I love this G&C song so much. I have the single somewhere. #totp

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Pablo Nepomnaschy @pablonep.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Not new, and not discovered...still great news. I offer a, perhaps, more accurate, less colonizing, title: "Western scientists describe a felid known to local communities as Tilcayo. It is the first description of its kind in over a century"

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Journey North from The Woman in Black. Unpublished original handmade artwork. £200 (ruddy bargain) Image size: A4 Email me at: nicktankardart@gmail.com

A black pen and printmaking ink Illustration on off white paper of a steam train and its carriages making their way along a track in a bleak, flat and featureless landscape. It is dusk and the lights are on in the carriages, steam erupts from the sides of the engine. A patchwork of farm fields surround the track, a narrow gully of water sits beneath the slightly elevated line. A leafless and lifeless tree rises from one of the foreground fields. A hint of a wood or darkness on the horizon in the distance. Moody and atmospheric.

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Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

it's quite disturbing how often the first time I have heard of American entertainers is from "Scooby Doo and Guess Who" (Halsey, Macklemore, Wanda Sykes etc.)

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🎃 Across the Causeway. An unpublished illustration I made for The Woman in Black by Susan Hill. £200 (another ruddy bargain) Image size: A4 Email me Email me at: nicktankardart@gmail.com 🎃

A watercolour, black pen and printmaking ink illustration on off white paper. A horse & cart with two people on board makes its way across a muddy and wet track or causeway towards a large dark Victorian house which is situated on a small island at the end of the causeway. A watery and wintry sky above. Bleak and atmospheric.

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Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Someone contacted me via my website today about my work as they’d seen me mentioned in the latest Wetherspoons Magazine! And indeed I do get a name check (right at the end).

Part of a multipage article from the Wetherspoon Magazine about the Whalebone Pub in Downham Market. There is a poor definition picture of my textile piece that they commissioned and I get a name check right at the end.

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Lindy Williams @ljdubcan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Today’s Canadian painting is “Gaspe Village” painted by Florence McGillivray in 1919.

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Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Finished my A3 sized #Eclipse cruise #Embroidery showing the route and some of the sights I saw. Might add some more details in the sea, but need to sit with it for a while.

A3 size embroidery in Bayeux stitch showing the route of my cruise to western France and northern Spain.

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Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Some quick Portuguese man o war studies in watercolour. #Painting #Watercolour #jellies

Four watercolour sketches of the Portuguese man o war in metallic blue and purple watercolour with dark and pale blue suggesting above and below the water.

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Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Eclipse voyage #Embroidery using #BayeauTapestry stitch Update! Finally finished the church from #Gijon (which was very difficult) and now I just have the #Botin Centre from #Santander to do - see paper sketch.

Embroidery of cruise to Northern Spain with embroidered illustrations for the ports visited.

Close up of embroidery of church from Gijon with fiddly details of windows and arches.

Embroidery of cruise to Northern Spain with embroidered illustrations for the ports visited a black outline sketch on paper sits in the gap on the left hand side

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Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Having seen my first Portuguese man o war jelly in the wild last month it’s inspired me to make something in #textile #embroidery. This face mask has been floating about for years and the fabric looks perfect for the insides of the bell. Lovely fabric from @lintontweeds

Close up of woven textured fabric in pale pinks blues an purples

A half unpicked face-mask with the pale textured fabric uppermost

A drawing of a Portuguese ma o war behind a sewn poly pocket and organza on the shape of the bell and the pale textured fabric rolled in a useful shape.

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Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

On the home stretch! This has been very little fun At last #higsawPuzzle

A 1000 piece jigsaw of a Norwegian winter scene of a bastard sky fading green and blue and bastard water mostly blue with a snow covered village which was the only enjoyable bit of this puzzle.

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Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Girls from 10 take on the responsibility for their own periods in a way that is not mirrored in any responsibility similar aged boys have. I’m surprised this is never mentioned in the reasons women do the mental load activities, they have had to remember and plan menstrual management from childhood.

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Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Two extremely different pieces of art you’ve made

Trade surplus corset with gorgeous embroidered imagery of British Arctic Whaling highlighting source of whalebone

Fairly well executed watercolour painting of some trees by the ditch around Avebury in the summer.

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Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Working up some ideas from recent #shoreline visits in #textile. Thinking about #mussels on rocks at high tide. Was going to sew into the painted seashells but might not. 5 x 4 inches, blue organza, machine #embroidery, fabric paint on light brown heavyweight cotton (from ikea)

5 x 4 inches, blue organza, machine #embroidery, fabric paint on light brown heavyweight cotton (from ikea) the organza looks like water and tiny streaks of metallic blue resemble clumps of mussels.

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Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

40 years on, 21 year old me could not begin to imagine the life I have now. #totp

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Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Bon Jovi on #totp memories of ice skating to this in Peterborough (don’t judge me)

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Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Omg Bruce Hornsby. And suddenly I’m 21 again and life is a bit shit, but I love this some so much #totp

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