This one’s not a book rec, but we wanted to take a second to brag on our Highland Branch janitor, Lynne. She makes these cake sculptures out of brick and asphalt!
These are on display right now at Highland Branch - if you’re in the area, stop by for a closer look (but please don’t taste!)
I was working with an item today that just utterly flabbergasted a part of me (the other was deeply frustrated with the catalogue record AS SOMEONE APPARENTLY THOUGHT IT WAS PRINTED ON SILK, coming back to that in a minute) … but ANYWAYS … said item is a replica of a medieval manuscript prayer book THAT IS ENTIRELY WOVEN out of grey and black silk … WOVEN … text, images, intricate grey scale, WOVEN … NOT PRINTED …
And it’s flabbergasting because it’s from 1888, Jacquard machine, IT USED PUNCH CARDS to weave these intricate pages … something like 400 weft per near square inch … IT looks like a page of textured paper, but it’s not, it’s entirely SILK … F*CK …
Anyways …
OKS I’ve since calmed down and found out that the reason they used “printed” is because it is essentially printed by a computer … in a weird way; when I import the record, I’m just gonna take that note out …
BUT this is the item btw
WOVEN! WOVEN ON A LOOM using f*ckin’ punch cards!
whaaaaaaaaaaat
edit: I found more info about it, and am fascinated because I’ve NEVER seen or heard of this before
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There are so many options to choose from! We’ll have to go with one that was introduced in Congress in 1893 that proposed to change the name of our country from the United States of America to the United States of the World.
Someone recently commented that I was “organized but not tidy” and I think that’s the first time in my life that a distinction has been made between the two.
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