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Cynthia Green @cynthiagreenauthor.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

What a lovely surprise to find my debut novel🩵 blue feet monsoon🩵 on a literature professor’s summer read blog! whatsantjereading.blogspot.com/25/07 #bluefeetmonsoon #summerreads #zadiesmith #crosscultural #tck

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Cynthia Green @cynthiagreenauthor.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Going to Scotland? Radiocarbon dated to between 480 - 390BC & thought to be the oldest textile in Scotland, this fragment from the Iron Age has just gone on display. www.bbc.com/news/article... #textiles #Scotland #culturalheritage

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Rare Iron Age textile to go on display for first time

The piece of fine woven yarn is almost 2,500 years old and dates back to the early to middle part of the Iron Age.

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Cynthia Green @cynthiagreenauthor.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Delighted to announce that Blue Feet Monsoon is now available in paperback as well as ebook! And thank you, The Expat Bookshop, for putting it on your Recommended Reads page! lnkd.in/ebUd6n7j #tck #expat #bluefeetmonsoon #newfiction #expatbookshop

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Cynthia Green @cynthiagreenauthor.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Went to the Mamluk Carpet (c.1250-1517) exhibit at MITI (antique carpet museum, Brescia, Italy) & I loved it! So much detail about how carpets were integral to daily life. I’m still thinking about it! Happy to answer your questions in the comments! #textilesky #carpets #identity #museumsky

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Cynthia Green @cynthiagreenauthor.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

A girl. Three passports. Some grannies. A monsoon or two. And a well-traveled batik sarong. #booksky #newfiction #thirdculturekid #batik #bluefeetmonsoon

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Cynthia Green @cynthiagreenauthor.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Just because I appreciate it doesn’t mean I need to own it. Not every flower needs to be picked. With that in mind, here’s another 17th century painting of a carpet from my visit to the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin. Enjoy! 🤗 Happy #stpatricksday 💙#museumtok #carpets #textiles #TCK #nogreed

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Cynthia Green @cynthiagreenauthor.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

When they know you by your carpets…this 17th century, unnamed painter painted carpets that look so plush he’s known as the carpet guy… But why? What was his connection to carpets? No one knows. (see it at the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin) #carpets #textiles #museums

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Cynthia Green @cynthiagreenauthor.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Turkman woman wearing abrbandi (ikat) robe (1911) — “Wait, a colour photo in 1911?” you ask… Yes! Photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) invented a colour system that he used to take photos like this across Central Asia & Russia. #ikat #textile #centralasia

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MythicBrush @efhoward.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

In light of our current mess, let’s celebrate trailblazing women in archaeology: Margaret Murray, Gertrude Caton-Thompson, and Dame Kathleen Kenyon. Their groundbreaking work proves that diversity in scholarship strengthens our understanding of ancient civilizations. #DEI #Archaeology #WomenInSTEM

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Pioneering Women in Archaeology

Here, we introduce pioneering women archaeologists. These are just a handful of some of the boldest women from the early days of archaeology.

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MythicBrush @efhoward.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

A 3,500-year-old Hittite linen fabric—tiny but mighty—is finally on display! Though small, this rare textile survived millennia, offering a glimpse into ancient craftsmanship. Who knew the oldest "fast fashion" would last this long? 🏺🧵 #Hittite #AncientTextiles #Archaeology #History

anatolianarchaeology.net

The 3,500-Year-Old Hittite Linen Fabric Discovered 30 Years Ago is Being Exhibited for the First Time - Anatolian Archaeology

The 3,500-Year-Old Hittite Linen Fabric Discovered 30 Years Ago is Being Exhibited for the First Time. Hittite Linen Fabric...

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Annemarieke Willemsen @amwillemsen.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

For #FindsFriday, a beautiful comb with case from Carolingian #Dorestad, c.8thC AD, rediscovered yesterday by serendipity in our store for organic materials 🤩 there were more combs, and leather, and textile - to be continued!

Bone or antler comb with its case from Dorestad, National Museum of Antiquities Leiden WD 430.3.10, photo: A. Willemsen 2025.

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にゃーたぬ @tanunyaaaa.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

今日はホワイトデーなのでお菓子たくさんの #イラスト ✐■おいしい夢みてるかな💤 →■white day①→② たてがみ描きすぎてまくらのマカロンと同じくらいワイドに💦笑きつねさんみたいになってしまった笑たぬ…きつ…ねこ🦝🦊🐱 のおねむなたぬちゃん笑 #猫 #ねこ #cat

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Cynthia Green @cynthiagreenauthor.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

One of the coolest virtual museum visits I’ve ever seen #textiles #carpets #museums

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Katrina @katrinamo.bsky.social · 14/05/2024

classic #textilemuseumproblems stuck in my local thrift trying to explain the human magic that is ikat to uninterested shoppers 😭😭😭

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Katrina @katrinamo.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

wore probably the most expensive garment that i ever will this weekend, during our ikat show and tell

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Katrina @katrinamo.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Saying goodbye to our beautiful ikat exhibition and gearing up for the museum’s centennial anniversary. If you are in DC during 2025 please be sure to stop at the museum to see the best of our collection (including my exhibition)!

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Cynthia Green @cynthiagreenauthor.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Textiles play an important role in our cultural #identity …here’s my interview with 3 Central Asian brands that are reviving abrbandi ( #ikat), for Selvedge Magazine (March 2025 issue).

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Vanishing and Endangered Cultures @nowaykgn.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

This Hmong woman in a tiny village in north Vietnam is working a foot-operated spinning machine to weave hemp fibers into multiple spools of yarn. The Hmong make their clothes from hemp and traditionally dye their hemp textiles using natural indigo, resulting in deep blue hues.

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

"The image of the painter and illuminator of this work. Hugh the painter" Hugh, the 11th century artist of Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 717, goes meta and paints himself at work on the manuscript itself.

A zoom in on a manuscript page. On the left some text is visible and on the right, in a geometric and floral frame there is a monk at a writing desk. The tones are green and red with a blue robe of the monk.

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