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H.M.Craig @hmcraig.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Hello Lovelies! This is Julian in Maplebutter, a leafy stripe with 19th c. origins, go get in fabric and wallpaper on Spoonflower now. (spoonflower id 22718922) #butteryellow #wallpaper #surfacepatterndesign #spoonflower #newengland

a serpentine leafy stripe in a warm yellow with a warm brown detail stroke. The leaves undulate and have berries below them on the same vine. There is a leafy and dotted serpentine line between the columns of leaves. It is loosely based on a 19th century embroidery illustration.

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H.M.Craig @hmcraig.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Hello Lovelies! I've been painting and watching the Tour de France Femmes...which, just amazing. Always amazing. Go watch. Célia Gery is a downhill demon. #inspiration #bloomscrolling

an image with an antique floral and banner background in mauve, gold, and ivory. The main banner reads 'the wonders prevail' in mauve.

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H.M.Craig @hmcraig.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

QRP with your most popular piece on bsky

Two white teacups seemingly hang (or fall) one above the other in this picture. The background is painted a warm middle green, with flowering leafy branches across the scene, and a little rusty brown and white bird in the upper corner of the composition. This pattern is called Wickleigh Bough, and is available in fabric and wallpaper at spoonflower id 19686633.

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H.M.Craig @hmcraig.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Hello Lovelies! I painted some cranes for wallpaper and fabric, and I hope you enjoy watching the process. Get your wallpaper here: www.spoonflower.com/en/wallpaper/22439808-cranes-pink-by-hmcraig #birdart #spoonflower #wip #interiordesign #onlybeautifulthings #crane #wallpaper #pattern #art

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H.M.Craig @hmcraig.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Cool breeze, blue skies, drifts of hydrangea; a beautiful day here in New England. #hydrangea #newengland #bloomscrolling #blueandwhite

A close-up photo of a white hydrangea panicle, with more panicles behind it interspersed with bits of green leaves. Behind them and at the top of the photo is a white picket fence and a sliver of marvelously light blue sky.

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H.M.Craig @hmcraig.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Fragment (England); silk, metallic thread, 18th Century, from the collection of @cooperhewitt Embroidery on damask gives this such a lovely depth. #bloomscrolling #embroidery #creativeinspiration #damask #antique #cooperhewitt

Embroidery of a flowering plant (yellow flowers with four petals), and a winged insect (looks a mix of dragonfly and butterfly with blue wings and yellow body), as well as a little spider. The colors are warm toned, the design embroidered on a creamy floral damask background which gives it depth.

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H.M.Craig @hmcraig.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Introducing William, inspired by the woodblock prints of Morris & Co, now available in multiple colorways in fabric and wallpaper at Spoonflower. Go get your samples now! William Soft (shown) - Spoonflower ID 22397193 #artyear #pattern #bloomscrolling #spoonflower #williammorris #cottage

A pattern design done in the Arts and Crafts Movement's naturalistic style with twining leafy floral vines. The background is a light beige gold with dark gold dots for visual texture; the main design is white with dark gold accents. There are flowers that look like wild roses, as well as little berries. The artist tried her best to make a pattern that would fit in well with a slightly sophisticated cottage, if that makes any sense.

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H.M.Craig @hmcraig.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Fairly recently, I attended a virtual Book Talk with @legroff.bsky.social at @rad-institute.bsky.social and found it to be like listening to a curious, kind, and intelligent friend/teacher. Sign up for the Book Talks this summer! #book #creativeprocess #art

An image with a colorful pastel marbled background on cream, with a white inset. The inset says "The Book is the artifact, the writing is the art. Lauren Groff"

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H.M.Craig @hmcraig.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

QRP with bird! #lovely #ArtRepostJuly #crane #pink #bird Cranes Pink, available in wallpaper and fabric on Spoonflower ( id number 22439808)

A detail of a crane pattern. The background is painterly pink, with white feathers floating through it, and the main subject is a crane in warm brown-gray monotone with white flying with wings outstretched. The crane looks slightly alarmed (I think a lot of birds look slightly alarmed).

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H.M.Craig @hmcraig.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

In the Garden (Celia Thaxter in Her Garden), Childe Hassam, 1892, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum #art #painting #newengland #summer #bloomscrolling #childehassam #garden

A very colorful painting of an older white woman in a white dress standing center left and looking down at her garden, which is full of pink and red poppies, as well as hollyhocks and a smattering of yellow and white flowers. in the background, you can see a light blue ocean with a sailboat or two. The whole painting is in pale bright color, indicative of summer.

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H.M.Craig @hmcraig.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

i woke up like this detail from a button, French, 1775 from the the NY Met Museum collection #fashion #blue #stripes #goodmorning #painting #portrait #french

A portrait painting of a woman with an outrageously large white hat with blue stripes. She looks at the viewer, perhaps satisfied, perhaps proud. This hat is so large that two toddlers could fit inside it, or 3 turkeys, whatever you have on hand.

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H.M.Craig @hmcraig.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Oh, that cool clean lush morning feeling in the New England woods! A detail of my Deer Toile Forest in Breeze, now available at spoonflower in fabric and wallpaper. Design 21930204 #deer #onlybeautifulthings #blueandwhite #forest #stunday

A detail of a pattern of light blue on cream, it shows a scene with leafy trees and bushes with gently bowing branches and a young spotted deer calmly walking the forest floor. There are some birds in the sky and a rabbit hidden at the base of a tree.

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H.M.Craig @hmcraig.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Hello Lovelies! Sharing a little work in progress detail of feathers and wings for an upcoming pattern that will be available on Spoonflower. #bird #birdart #pink #wip #pattern #painting #process #spoonflower #onlybeautifulthings

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H.M.Craig @hmcraig.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

If you're in the Boston area, check out the Museum of Fine Arts exhibition titled 'Framing Nature'. It's only up until June 28. A detail of a tapestry by John Henry Dearle for Morris & Co, 1892, below. #onlybeautifulthings #tapestry #artsandcraftsmovement #boston #gardening #rabbits #foxglove

a detail of a tapestry. this detail depicts two rabbits, both facing left and running through a thickly designed forest wild, with white foxglove flowers on the right and a pinkish-red spreay of flowers on the left. The background is heavy with green leaves. it looks like a medieval tapestry, but with late 19th century sensibilities (more naturally depicted).

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H.M.Craig @hmcraig.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Finished! Belrose - Leaf I like to imagine it in a cozy home library. Additional colors incoming. #art #pattern #spoonflower #bloomscrolling #interiordesign #cottagecore #fabric #wallpaper #green

A detail of a symmetrical pattern that was inspired by William Morris, it is mostly green and cream with a bit of light yellow-orange. The design's framework is thorny rose bushes intertwined, with clusters of off-white roses and small sprays of berries.

A zoomed-out view of the same design, so the viewer can see how it all flows.

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H.M.Craig @hmcraig.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

That early sunset had me feeling like... ................. Scops Owl in Moonlight by Ohara Shōson, early 1920s, LACMA #timechange #owl #art #woodblock #nightowl

A Japanese woodblock print. It is mostly monochromatic gray and white. An owl with outspread wings is in the middle of the composition, it is perched on a crooked branch. Its eyes are yellow, and there is a little bit of a russet brown on the back of its neck. At the bottom left corner of the composition, there is a near-black splotch with a pale crescent moon.

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H.M.Craig @hmcraig.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Just me, going to work on Halloween. Totally normal-like. #halloween #witch #art #engraving #demon #goat 'Il Stregozzo' by Agostino Veneziano, 1515, from the Met Collection. You can see this print and others right now at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts in their 'Bold and Beautiful' exhibition.

A detail of an etching. A naked older witch rides atop a skeletal beast. Under the beast there are winged and horned demon skeletons, as well as a fairly normal looking goat, and a man who has his butt facing us. The print has a lot of visual movement, and its forms look almost abstract.

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H.M.Craig @hmcraig.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

"Don't sing if you want to live long They have no use for your song You're dead, you're dead, you're dead You're dead and out of this world" -Norma Tanega #nadja #wwdits #vampire #halloween #art Painting - Salome, Henri Regnault, 1870, oil on canvas, from the Met Museum's collection.

A dark haired woman dressed in flowing golden yellow top and sheer skirt sits on an ornate box. She is looking at the viewer, and has a sense of content accomplishment on her face. There is a large gold bowl and hefty dagger in her lap. What looks like a leopard skin rug is at her feet, and the background is yellow gold fabric.

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H.M.Craig @hmcraig.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Three women and three wolves, watercolor and colored pencil on paper, by Eugène Grasset, 1892, France #halloween #illustration #wolf #loups #witch #color

This is an illustration in watercolor and colored pencil of three women who are painted watery green, one with flowing waves of black hair, floating amidst red trees. The women look alarmed. The trees have simple decorative designs on them. On the ground, there are three black wolves with bright white eyeshine all facing the viewer. They have open mouths.

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H.M.Craig @hmcraig.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Silk panel, possibly from France, 1700-1725, from the collection of the @artinstitutechi.bsky.social #halloween #pattern #eye #textile #weird

alternating sprigs of plants with what look like eyes growing from them. the background is a teal gray, the leaves are a darker gray-green, and each sprig has three stalks from them each bearing what looks like an eyeball. The eyeballs themselves have black pupils, yellow-rimmed green irises, whites, and pink or red surroundings.

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H.M.Craig @hmcraig.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

A fragment of the 'Devils Paper' (1820-1840) influenced by French printmaker Jacques Callot from the @historicnewengland.bsky.social wallpaper collection. #halloween #devil #pattern #silhouette #grotesque

A yellowed, torn, and creased piece of wallpaper. The design is in black silhouettes, with various bits of violence happening. For some odd reason, there is also a peacock.

the label below the design reads " Wall Paper from Governor Gore House, Waltham, Massachusetts."

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H.M.Craig @hmcraig.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

A secret door. Who lives here? What's on the other side? ..... My design - Inglehedge Garden Tapestry in Midnight - available now in wallpaper and fabric at Spoonflower ( 20340161 ) #secretdoor #magic #interiordesign #spoonflower #3D #decor #art #pattern #witch #darkacademia #library #fairy

A scene of an interior, with a partly opened secret door. Mist and golden stars are spilling out of the dark space behind the door.

The wall is paneled halfway up the wall in a light beige, with the top half being in a dark vined wallpaper in shades of blue-gray. There are light colored moths on the leaves. The wood plank floor is dark. There are two sconces (with mirrors and lit candles) on either side of the secret door.

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H.M.Craig @hmcraig.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

This idyllic pattern is based off of 18th century landscape paintings, toile de jouy, and verdure tapestry. #deer #art #spoonflower #pattern #toiledejouy #verdure Available now in fabric and wallpaper at Spoonflower.

A detail of a pattern. The subject is a deer in a forested scene, with a cream background, sage green foliage, and tan deer. There are birds and a rabbit in the background.

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H.M.Craig @hmcraig.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Left (Midnight) or right (Verdure)? I based this new wallpaper pattern off of antique tapestries and secret gardens. #pattern #spoonflower #wallpaper #art

A winding pattern of leafy vines set against a dark background. The general color is a blue gray. There are small white moths fluttering around the leaves.

A winding pattern of leafy vines set against a dark background. The general color is a warm green. There are small white moths fluttering around the leaves.

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H.M.Craig @hmcraig.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

An Eye That Looks, miniature, French, from the Louvre #art #painting #louvre

A small rectangular painting of someone's eye looking back at the viewer. The eye is surrounded by forget-me-not in warm earthy colors. It is framed in what looks like brass and mounted on what looks like a nubbled dark brown leather.

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H.M.Craig @hmcraig.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

A quick and cute little doodle pattern. Repeat is on the right, if you want it. #pattern #squirrel #fall #cute #cottagecore #surfacepatterndesign

a repeating pattern that is also symmetrical. The pattern is of two white squirrels facing each other, each blushing and holding an acorn, and below them there is a large sage green oak leaf. The background is a pale beige. It is done in a cute cartoony style.

The pattern repeat itself. the only thing different about this and the last picture is that it's a smaller segment that when tiled will repeat.

This one also has the little white squirrels, each with their own acorn, sitting above a large sage green oak leaf.

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H.M.Craig @hmcraig.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Look at these spooky beauties!!!

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Annie Haines @anniehaines.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I did this one at Navarro Beach during a recent painting retreat. I just now added a slight gradation to the house that made it sit better in the painting. Amazing to me how one tiny change can make such a difference sometimes #pleinair #watercolor #californiabeaches

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H.M.Craig @hmcraig.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Look at this little buddy I had the pleasure of meeting! #snail #shell #newengland

A close-up picture of a snail on asphalt. The snail takes up the top half of the frame, and is going from left to right. This individual happens to be a warm but pale yellow, and their shell has a thin burnt umber line on the outside. Both the snail and its shell looks like they're made out of glass, very delicate.

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H.M.Craig @hmcraig.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

If you're in the Boston/New England area, I highly recommend the Rachel Ruysch exhibition going on at the Museum of Fine Arts. It feels like magic, and also has specimens from @harvard alongside her work. #Stunday #RachelRuysch #Boston #art #lizard #peach #butterfly #painting #fineart #sciart

A detail of a painting by Rachel Ruysch, a 17th century dutch painter who intensely studied the natural world.

This detail shows a butterfly (black wings with bands of orange and white spots) and a small bluish lizard in the foreground, with a stack of peaches, a chestnut, grapes, a pear and leaves in the background. The lizard looks either playful or alarmed at the butterfly, but I don't know much about lizards, so maybe she's just hungry.

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H.M.Craig @hmcraig.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

This little vignette with a framed fox and bee are on my Nonpareil Berkshires wallpaper available now at Spoonflower. #pattern #marbling #autumn #spoonflower #interiordesign #fox #witch

A little vignette of two framed metal pieces on green marbled paper background. The upper gold frame is oval on its side, the background is a rusty orange, and it has an engraved brass fox face set within it. The bottom gold frame is hexagonal with a deep green background and an engraved brass bee in it.

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H.M.Craig @hmcraig.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

A sample of Color Standards and Nomenclature by Robert Ridgway, 1912 #color #arthistory #green

An orderly grid of paint chips in (from left to right) warm greens to cool greens, and (from top to bottom) light to dark. Each chip is labelled with a name (Water Green, Corydalis Green, Deep Greenish Glaucous; Light Grape Green, Mytho Green, Dark Greenish Glaucous; Grape Green, Asphodel Green, Pistachio Green; Deep Grape Green, Pois Green, American Green; Lincoln Green, Leaf Green, Dark American Green.)

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 04/09/2025

A collection of New Yorker covers by Mary Petty, who captured a a lonely, moneyed family called the Peabodys. nyer.cm/OPXLGjV

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H.M.Craig @hmcraig.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Dragonfly and Mallow by Jacques le Moyne de Morgues, 16th century, France #art #bloomscrolling #dragonfly

A stem of mallow with three light pink flowers and five olive-colored leaves. A dragonfly with black-striped wings sits on one of the lower flowers on the stem. The details are delicate, precise.

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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.northsky.social · 29/07/2025

Oh, it's #WorldTigerDay, you say? Long-time followers know I gotta post it again. (Sorry, not sorry... still one of my favorite things I've ever drawn)

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