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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 10h

Jessie Newbery (1864 – 1948) Scottish artist/embroiderer, a hugely important ' Glasgow Girl' as she created the Department of Embroidery at the Glasgow School of Art, establishing needlework as a form of unique artistic design #WomensArt #GlasgowGirls

Three images, one to the left of a monochrome photograph featuring a white in Edwardian dress while two images to the right show art nouveau embroidery

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

One of the stone rows at Ballymeanoch - part of the remarkable prehistoric landscape at Kilmartin Glen in Argyll. 📸 My own. #StandingStoneSunday #Prehistory #Archaeology #Kilmartin #Argyll

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 19h

Goodnight. 🖼️ The Widow's Broom, Chris Van Allsburg. #31DaysofHalloween #Gothtober

Witch’s lower leg and boot coming off a broom mid air over fields and a house, night, illustration.

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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Can someone buy me this for Christmas, please? 🎄📖 #BookSky

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

October leaf palette. If you zoom in to the colours and details it will dial down stress a little and help you recover if there's any angst for you later today (research has shown this)🍁🍂🌾🌿

Leaves from 6 different trees & shrubs collected in October and arranged to create a colour shift echoing a rainbow

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Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#WyrdWednesday Nørre Nærå runestone (Nørre Nærå-stenen), a Viking Age granite runestone from Denmark is interpreted as having a so called grave-binding inscription used to keep the deceased in their grave. Photo: Nationalmuseet i Denmark. www.scandinavianarchaeology.com/the-draugr/

Grey stone with pointed top, carved with runestones.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Pauline Cumming, Scottish creator of quirky ceramics with feminist themes and humour #womensart

White plate with blue design including a central historical female and song lyrics from a Smiths song around the border

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In the post below this is the very first 'find the...' photo I made about a yr ago.There's a miniscule silver plated stag 🦌 hidden among the autumnal finds. It'll help your mental health in 4 different ways... 1) If you find the photo pleasing that triggers a burst of dopamine in yr 🧠 cont'd 1/2...

rosehips, sycamore keys, beech nuts, acorns, a fennel seedhead, ivy buds, a pinecone and Boston ivy berries, part of my first Find the... photo

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We archaeologists tell the stories of the stones not to erase their mystery, not to undo their role as anchoring post for folklore, but to transmit the Long Neolithic. We give context for ghosts, provide new reasons for lithic pilgrimage. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Easterton Of Roseisle Stone - a Class 1 Pictish Symbol Stone discovered at Moray in 1894. The stone probably dates to the 5th or 6th centuries, and is now part of the collections at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. 📸 My own #StandingStoneSunday #Picts

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Paul Robichaud 🪨🐐 @pjrobichaud.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

🎨 Robert Lawson, ‘Young Pan Piping’

Pan plays his pipes while an elf listens from behind a stone.

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Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“Tarot Reader Girl - Optical Illusion Skull“ by Olga Beliaeva

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The models for ‘American Gothic’ pose in front of the iconic painting, 1942.

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026

“Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man.” ("The Castle of Otranto") Horace Walpole bas born #otd 1717 🎨 Susanna Duncombe (c 1770)

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help to free the other half.” - Emmeline Pankhurst. UK suffragette arrested, 1914 #womensart #Tuesday

Monochrome photograph featuring a white woman being carried by a policeman as other men crowd around

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Lucy Ogden, ceramic artist living and working in Shoreham by Sea on the south coast of the UK #WomensArt (via Instagram)

Four white plates with angular images of black birds all against a wood backdrop

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Tomorrow's front page 📰 SNP, Sinn Fein and Plaid Cymru sign historic self-determination declaration

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

John Swinney has pledged his Government will work 'to ensure women and girls can live their lives free from all forms of men's violence'

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John Swinney vows action ahead of Holyrood debate on violence against women and girls

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Marianne Seiman, contemporary crochet artist (via Instagram) #Womensart #September

Photo of twelve different and colourful toadstools and mushrooms created from crochet against a black background

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Barbara Regina Dietzsch (1706 – 1783), Bavarian painter and engraver known for her still lifes and flowers paintings #womensArt

Painting of a close-up of a thistle with spiked green leaves and two pink flowers with two butterflies, all against a black background

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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The Venus of Laussel, limestone and red ochre, Gravettian Upper Paleolithic culture, Laussel rock shelter, Dordogne, France, 25,000 YBP, 46 cm, Musée d'Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France Note: The term "Venus" for these types of statuettes is rejected by many archaeologists and palaeoanthropologists

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Tuatha @tuatha.ie · 10/09/2026

This sandstone pillar at Gallen in County Offaly is decorated with an interlaced cross, set above two beasts that face each other, each with an flamboyantly interlaced tail. The lower panel of diagonal fretwork is more weathered, with another four legged animal – possibly a stag – at the centre.

A freestanding, weathered sandstone pillar with insular Irish art

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The Harriet Tubman Memorial statue, Harlem, by Alison Saar #WomensArt

Statue on a city street of a black woman in a long green dress as if moving foward with purpose

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Paul Robichaud 🪨🐐 @pjrobichaud.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The Odin Stone at Stennis in Orkney was where ‘two persons, generally lovers, desirous to take the promise of Odin,’ would clasp hands through the stone, according to Sir Walter Scott in 1814. When a farmer later destroyed the stone, locals set his house on fire. #WyrdWednesday 🎨 Lady Stafford

Drawing of the Odin Stone by Lady Stafford, 1805

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Rivka @theasraidance.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The Norns by Alois Delug, 1895. #WyrdWednesday

Painting depicting the Norns as three seated women in long robes. One holds up a long thread above her head. Fiery red and yellow sky.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Amazigh weaving from Morocco, created by indigenous women of North Africa #WomensArt

Embroidered cloth with red horizontal
stripes with white and black stitches creating diamond and zig zag patterns, all on a white fabric background

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

English stained glass artist Tamsin Abbott, who is inspired by folklore and nature #WomensArt ##September

Stained glass artwork featuring a green hilly landscape with fields and a house, with a hare in the foreground and swallows flying in the sky

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 07/09/2026

“Those who walk in sleep seem as if animated by another soul; a phantasm directing their limbs, while their waking spirit slumbers.” (“De Oneirodynia“, (1815) John Polidori was born #otd 1795 🎨 Maximilán Pirner "Somnambulant" (1878)

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Nina Antonia @ninaantonia13.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

#SpookySunday Phantom Femmes by Belgium artist, Gaston Bogaert, (1918-2008) whose work had an unsettling appeal.

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Gary Buckley @garybuckley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Rainbow portrait of Elizabeth I, declaring that she is the sun who creates the rainbow, and that she hears & watches all. And that she is prudent and keeps her passions in check! A load of conceits in one great painting of our birthday girl.

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A group shot of some of the one-off pieces I’ve made using Victorian & Edwardian charms, lockets & stamp holders that will be in my etsy shop this evening around 9pm. www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...

A collection of jewellery that I’ve made using antique charms, lockets & stamp holders that will be in my etsy shop tonight

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

If you don’t want to read Dracula together by candlelight whilst sharing dark chocolate cheesecake and a vintage Cabernet Sauvignon in an ominous Victorian mansion during a full moon on a cool October night as wolves howl in the distance, then please don’t tell me you’re “open to trying new things."

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P J Richards @pj-richards.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

🌹🔮🌹'The Crystal Ball' - by John William Waterhouse. #FolkloreThursday #FolkWitchFriday #FolkloreSunday

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

In case your brain’s also tired and sad here’s a floral pick-me-up I grew:

Flowers I grew in my garden arranged in a rainbow of colour on a white linen background

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Folklore of Scotland @folklorescotland.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

15/08/1953: the 'Girvan Sea Monster' washed ashore. It had a four-foot giraffe neck, a camel-shaped head with bone-shielded eyes, four stumpy appendages like legs, and a 12-foot tail. My own father remembers being taken to see it, it smelled terrible! #wyrdwednesday #Scotland

Newspaper clipping of the Girvan Sea Monster discovery

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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

SIGNED BOOK NEWS! You can now pre-order a SIGNED copy of "Royal Witch" by Philippa Gregory. A breath taking story of sorcery, ambition and one woman's extraordinary rise. Out October 22nd. Order HERE. www.biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...

Front cover of Royal Witch.

It shows a young woman wearing a red cloak holding a small candle.

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Oh look, a Yellow Wagtail has wandered into your feed for a little paddle. How delightful!

A Yellow Wagtail pauses in a shallow puddle, one foot lifted as though taking another careful step. Its vivid yellow underparts stand out against the soft browns of the muddy waterside

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Trying to recover from a breakdown while also really pushing myself to work & be a good-ish mum seems to result in dips-I fall down a hole.I’m in one now tbh-I haven’t been doing what my brain needs to be well-ish,so today I’m putting boots on & actually going outside to find small beautiful things🌿

Small collection of nature finds from the wood

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Arthur Spear - Sunrise (1921)

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

'Transcend' from Gemma Matthews, aka The Sewing Songbird, contemporary embroidery artist who creates free hand pieces #WomensA

Circular embroidery featuring a white female ballet dancer surrounded by flowers under a full moon

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Acoma pottery, vases, by ceramics artist Paula Estevan #WomensArt

Four images of ceramic vessels with repeated geometric patterns in black and white and red, black and white

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 28/07/2026

Presenting the Booker Prize 2026 longlist. Find out more about the books and authors that make up this year's Booker Dozen: thebookerprizes.com/bp2026

The Booker Prize 2026 longlist in full:

- The Shadow of the Object by Chloe Aridjis
- Switzy by Emma Cline
- Helen of Nowhere by Makenna Goodman
- The End of Everything by M. John Harrison
- The Disappearers by Marlon James
- Black Bag by Luke Kennard
- The Renovation by Kenan Orhan
- May We Feed the King by Rebecca Perry
- The Palm House by Gwendoline Riley
- The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout
- John of John by Douglas Stuart
- All Them Dogs by Djamel White
- The Vivisectors by Missouri Williams

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Currently, massive wildfires are burning in - Canada - United States - Scotland - Ireland - Spain - France - Russia - The Amazon + more This is on top of massive floods elsewhere. What affects one country affects us all.

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Emily Jane Rothwell 🖤🌸🖋️ @emjanerothwell.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

‘The Keeper of the Moon,’ Amanda Clark

A magical owl holds a glowing, small, crescent moon in its mouth as green leaves surround him…the beauty of the owl & moon is central to the painting itself.

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