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Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social · 12h

Sunday morning messing about with fabric scraps and threads with good coffee and singing along to #DeaconBlue Perfect.

A somewhat chaotic messy table filled with fabric scraps, threads and other haberdashery around a cylinder of overlayed textiles in blues and golds that will hopefully turn into a little fabric pot

Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Right, I’m an old person and having relived my teenage years earlier this evening #totp and then the #PetShopBoys I need to tidy the kitchen and go off to bed. Thank you all for your comments and company this evening.

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Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don’t think I’ve heard Neil actually sing before.

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Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Saw them in a forest a few miles from here a good few years ago and they were excellent. #totp #nottotp

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Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Damn, high notes for me again. Let’s hope the neighbours don’t complain this time #totp

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Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I shall hang around for the Pet Shop Boys. Anyone else? #totp

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Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Again, liked the group can’t remember this one T’pau #totp

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Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I was a resilient and resourceful teenager #totp

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Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

How can I not remember this Duran Duran song? #totp

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Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The station supervisor took pity on me and let me sit in his office and made me a cup of tea til the first train arrived. My parents assumed I’d stayed with my sister who lived in Horsham at the time. #totp

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Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Saw Simon and Garfunkel at Wembley too. That was amazing. And later missed the last train home to Brighton from a Police gig on a school night in London and spent the night on Three Bridges station and had a rough old day at VI form college. #totp

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Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I had a big sister who used to take me to gigs. Including Hammersmith when Paul Young guested #totp

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Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Police were the first band I saw live in Autumn 1979 on the Regatta de Blanc tour. They were great. Saw them quite a few times. Sadly I don’t think their music has stood the test of time well #totp

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Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oooh - was a big fan. Got backstage with ultravox in Brighton and have some awful photos of midge somewhere #totp

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Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ah, ok the string of bangers couldn’t last #totp

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Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yeah but it was only 4 years after women could get a mortgage or a bank account without their farther or husband’s consent so #totp

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Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That would have been pans people’s response I’m sure. #Totp

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Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

As someone who was 14 in ‘79 I concur. #totp

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Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oh Christ no #totp legs and co to. Kate Bush. Arggggggh

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Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Not my fav #Squeeze track, but saw them live a lot back in the day so I’ll enjoy the memories of that time. #totp

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Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You are not wrong #totp. Saw my first gig that year

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Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yay XTC #totp I have singles from a lot of the bands in that chart run down

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Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I have high hopes for the next half hour #totp

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Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You look in the bathroom mirror one morning and say “how the fuck can I be 61” #totp

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Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oooh, didn’t know Toploader had another song #totp

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Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If I was touching that I’d be wearing gloves too. #totp

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Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oooh it’s cultural appropriation o ‘clock #totp

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Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Particularly for those focus who don’t tend to wear their glasses in the shower!

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Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Interrupted walk to let the muntjac deer cross, and waiting by the path her little fawn.

An adult female muntjac deer emerges from the undergrowth to cross the path

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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 · 30/09/2026

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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