1735 Germany Stickmuster

My own.. using..

Cross-stitch is a popular form of counted-thread embroidery in which X-shaped stitches in a tiled pattern are used to form a picture. The stitcher counts the threads in each direction so that the stitches are of uniform size and appearance. Cross-stitch is one of the oldest forms of embroidery and can be found all over the world.^[1] Many folk museums show examples of clothing decorated with cross-stitch, especially from continental Europe and Asia.

Two-dimensional (unshaded) cross-stitch in floral and geometric patterns, usually worked in black and red cotton floss on linen, is characteristic of folk embroidery in Eastern and Central Europe.^[2]

In the United States, the earliest known cross-stitch sampler is currently housed at Pilgrim Hall in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Itwas created by Loara Standish, daughter of Captain Myles Standish and pioneer of the Leviathan stitch, 1653.

Multicoloured, shaded, painting-like patterns as we know them today are a recent development, deriving from similar shaded patterns ofBerlin wool work of the mid-nineteenth century.

Traditionally, cross-stitch was used to embellish items like dishcloths, household linens, and doilies (only a small portion of which would actually be embroidered, such as a border). Although there are many cross-stitchers who still employ it in this fashion, especially in Europe, it is now increasingly popular to simply embroider pieces of fabric and hang them on the wall for decoration.

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Book

Another from the same ziney. Putting those jumpers were thought about, they just had to have been!

Waitrose is good. Even though it is very expensive it is always empty and peaceful in there. Perhaps an area thing.. But there essential range has lovely packaging.

"Fine English Knitwear Spring 1985"

This could be the start of retracing if this colour co ordination has a start.  I doubt it will have a finish.

Something like this below.. ;) I rather like this.  Shame I couldn't have captured it better, symmetry wise and the quality is horrible.  At least it proves it happens.

Some really beautiful examples of some accidental colour co ordination of in this case-pattern.  I can give and take that far I think.  These are from http://obviousmag.org/en/archives/2008/06/the_right_moment_to_photograph.html

Just to clarify

1. Science that cannot be seen to the naked eye

2. Ballet

3. Accidental colour co ordination

Recently saw a blog called nerdcore.  Its full of some gruesome and lovely things ranging from The Simpsons to economy involved subjects.  They really like their martian illustrations.  Its actually a really nice website.

 http://www.nerdcore.de/wp/

Their poster collection is really nice too.  This one is a little fitting to my current keen mind set on "science that cannot be seen".. 

http://www.nerdcore.de/wp/tag/poster/

Cross Stitch is so good.  I will be looking at old and new styles.  I might try a take on modern design but using cross stich.  I will see if this has been done before.  I have been putting together some pieces in celebration of a highlighting how good they are...

Also, I have found a great person to get in touch with regarding some lovely visuals for "science that you ca see".  He is a Biologist.  I have also had my nose stuck in some Biology text books.  The key points will be documented in an easy read format.  It has bought back a lot of memories.  I might conduct some research which involves testing peoples knowledge of basic and hard Biology.  Here is some imagery to perk up your taste buds.  They're so beautiful.

I have read the most inspirational book ever (so far) over the past snippet of time.  Even though it is very specialised in one of my research subjects, it has some absolutely marvelous lines in it.  I will show some accordingly.  It will be obvious which subject matter it is about.  The subject matter comes naturally to me as it is something I have just taken up and always does when thinking things through or am waiting around with only my body to entertain me.

Inspired

On wednesday I went to a really good car boot sale. There I found an amazing 1960s chemistry set with all the original parts like the dissecting board and beautiful microscope. It got me thinking about close up things. I got so excited about the possibility of science you cant see and lots of thoughts and possibilites started up in my brain. I thought about the imagery of cell forms and the imagery of collected cells. The thought of looking at something I thinking that there are thousands of moving things within it is amazing. I want to look into this as it is a better subject matter for a research project with alot of possible angles to take it on.

Step one-get a microscope and start looking at things.

Regret of project so far-why did I not buy the chemistry set, it was only five squid! You got test tubes and chemicals and all the trimmings with it too!

Ebay is good.

I thought I would show a couple examples of what I mean by all this yapping...  all are accidental (Arthur's Blue day. not so much.. but still.)

This whole subject matter really isn't working out as a research project.  I am sad about this as its something I have wanted to bring to life for a while.  It seems that there is alot of visual evidence to back up my observations I make on a day to day basis in my brain.  However, there are no facts and figures to access this project from another angle.  I also find it hard to gain perspective from other people about it as it is something that not many people observe.

Back to the drawing board and quickly as I hope I haven't wasted time.