Free historical patterns for stays and corsets

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Please note that this post is just a compilation of patterns I have found online on various websites. Some os these patterns were digitally traced after an original – please respect those who took their time to do this and never claim these works as your own.

I will be updating this list as I come across other antique patterns

everything is so funny. When i ignore the dread

no one can write about ghosts, not even the bible. we can read a passage about the child-prophet, who lived and died for god, being violently ripped from the afterlife. we can read of moses returning from forty days spent alone with god and no longer looking like he belonged in the world. we can read of the food we leave out for the dead, of the israelites drinking contaminated water and then being damned to wander the wilderness half-dead half-alive, of god refusing to give elisha a body to mourn and elisha, in turn, refusing to stop being a prophetic body. but ghosts and hauntings are supra-linguistic. less cognitive than limbic. they are not in the text at all. not even a little bit. in fact, they are so far from the text that they are under your bed. in your closet. prophets are haunting you still. god might appear in the reflection of a medicine cabinet if you close it too hastily. no one can write about ghosts, not even the bible, because they do not haunt scripture, they haunt you

— Clarice Lispector, from “The Egg and the Chicken”, Collected Stories (trans. Katarina Dodson)

that thing björk said about the inside of a tv looking like little city

Oddly shaped lava formations look like a mass of twisted bodies in Hawaii shot by Laszlo Kestay (1996)

Circuit board necklace

You unrelentingly ask for the secret

Erica Schreiner - untitled video still from Stars ©2012

the clouds today are strung with spaces between them like alternating current or beads individually secured to a chain instead of threaded continuously on a string causing the sunlight to flicker on and off in intervals like a low framerate time lapse as im sitting in the cold sun gloveless experiencing the death of dexterity in my hands and by way of that the thaw of symbol from where it encases the touchable world obsessively reading every gertrude stein poem i can find and imagining alternative histories in which bonaparte was a vegan

Medieval alcove, St. Michael’s Mount, Cornwall

part 1 of the zine i made today

part 2! i figured id just make it free for folks online <3 i dont really have plans to sell it, so why not!

Josef Scharl, 1933, "Burning Stars"

Fletcher Sibthorp, 1967, "The Devotion"

Josef Scharl, 1933, "Burning Stars"

Fletcher Sibthorp, 1967, "The Devotion"

English spelling isn't that hard to understand as long as you also understand French orthography, Dutch orthography, the Great Vowel Shift, the Latin language, the history of the printing press, and the etymology of every word introduced to English in the last 600 years