Aunt Ruth

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I've spent my life in the southern USA, but my people aren't from around here. Older than the Pope. And, yes, I can drive a stick.

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Aunt Ruth@auntruth· 7d

Okay, ONE MORE: Althea Crone posted stunning WIP process photos of her "WARHOL 2.0" tribute to Marilyn Monroe. shoutout.wix.com/so/42N1I6B4k... (And now I will back away slowly, as I must whenever I search for images associated with her name...)

Screenshot of MICRO KNITTING NEWS from Althea Crome, February 2020.

Color photo of a tiny hand-knitted sweater (aka jumper), about 2 inches, displayed on Crome's fingertips. It's an off-white pullover jumper with a tall collar and elbow-length sleeves. The front panel is a depiction of one of Warhol's famous prints of Marilyn Monroe. A single image of her face is repeated across a 3x3 matrix of tiny squares, with her face and its background in a variety of bright colors.

Descriptive text below the image: 2" x 1.5"
60,000 stitches, 68 stitches/inch
500+ hours in the making.

"Below are some of the photos I took during the process of creating Warhol 2.0"

Aunt Ruth@auntruth· 7d

Althea Crome has a free newsletter! www.altheacrome.com/newletters Here's what she described as "the most challenging piece of knitting" that she had created (as of early 2022). This would be a stunner even if it were done in a large adult size. (And it looks like it was worked in the round.)

Aunt Ruth@auntruth· 7d

Here's a scene from the movie, showing Coraline trying on the pair of gloves. (They appear in other scenes.) Check out that website - it's full of wonderful knit pieces and behind-the-scenes and WIP information

Color still from the stop-motion film, CORALINE. Two women are shopping, with the shop's window in the background. On the left, a mother is looking through a rack of jackets. On the right, her daughter Coraline is trying on a pair of striped gloves and stretching her arms in front of herself to admire them.

Aunt Ruth@auntruth· 7d

From that collection (it's SO worth the clicks!) -

CORALINE costuming by master knitter ALTHEA CROME. Color image of a knitted 5-finger glove, with horizontal stripes of orange and three shades of green. Superimposed on the photo are words, numbers, and dotted lines showing the knitting pattern for creating it. The incredibly tiny finished glove is less than an inch from cuff to fingertips

Aunt Ruth@auntruth· 8d

Moonstone vs Diamond? www.celebitchy.com/989724/duche...

Aunt Ruth@auntruth· 10d

OOOH! Gallery, video, and podcast about the dress and its story, via the West Highland Museum, here: highlandthreads.co.uk/west-highlan...

Closeup of a detail from a muslin dress embroidered with metallic threads and shiny beetle wings, showing every stitch of the wing attachment and outining.

Aunt Ruth@auntruth· 10d

AND IN OTHER NEWS: "...the only known example of a beetle wing dress belonging to a working-class person..." archive.is/Y2meU Barbara Morrison, "farm servant" on Skye, later a hired dressmaker, and later an Army wife, owned this gown.

Photo of a white muslin Bristish gown ornamented with green. Made for Barbara Morrison, "the only known example of a beetle wing dress belonging to a working-class person." The wife of a British officer, she had begun her adult life as a "farm servant" on Skye. White shirtdress style; the tailored bodice has a band collar, center placket, and wrist-length set-in sleeves. The gathered skirt is full, with a slightly-gathered ruffle at the hem. Dress is ornamented with shiny green beetle wings, scattered in restrained patterns. There are strips of a foliage pattern on the major parts of the mostly-white bodice. From waist to knee there are scattered buds and a few lines of foliage. From knee to ruffle there is a repeating series of large paisley motifs, with four visible in this front view, built up of small leaves.

Aunt Ruth@auntruth· 13d

At an earlier stop on the premiere tour, she wore another brown spiderweb gown, by Maison Valentino Haute Couture. That one featured a plunging v-neck and a high thigh slit. archive.is/Pj7J5

Zendaya poses on the red carpet at a Spiderman premiere. She wears a light brown, floor-length gown with a short train, just darker than her skin tone. The gown is cut with a plunging v-neck supported by tiny straps, with a thigh-high slit. It is embroidered overall with black spiderwebs. by Valentino Haute Couture

Aunt Ruth@auntruth· 13d

A little Zendaya to cheer you! Such a perfectly chic 1920s effect that one can imagine her pulling off a Josephine Baker biopic. (Gown from the Armani archives, 1990) www.msn.com/en-us/lifest...

Color photo: Tom Holland, wearing a rich brown suit, escorting Zendaya. She wears a light brown sleeveless gown with a slim silhouette; an ankle-length, sheer, a-line lining is just darker than her skin, layered over with netting in spiderweb patterns. It creates the illusion of delicate spiderwebs floating across the body. Her hair and makeup evoke the 1920s flapper era - a short bob with a side part and curls framing her face. This is an archival Giorgio Armani gown from the designer's Spring/Summer 1990 collection.

Aunt Ruth@auntruth· 15d

Saucy!

Color postcard photo of Ann Whitney's statue of Leif Ericson, a bronze figure him peering into the distance with his hip cocked. This view shows his saucy backside, covered by a chain-mail tunic over a short skirt, against a bright blue sky with puffy white clouds.

Aunt Ruth@auntruth· 23d

Embellished with gold and lapis lazuli, this dagger was buried with Egyptian Princess Ita, c. 1900 BCE. Unearthed but unstudied and labeled a "ceremonial object," it was "rediscovered" in basement storage in 2000. archive.is/202607171437...

Collage of 3 color photos of a dagger buried with Princess Ita Sameh Abdel c.1900 B.C.E., "rediscovered" in the basement of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo in 2020.

Top image: Full view of the dagger. The blade is mottled brown that looks like it may be bone or ivory. The hilt and guard are worked in gold and lapis lazuli. Detail photos show the semiprecious inlay work on the hilt and guard, and the goldwork that attaches the top of the blade.

Aunt Ruth@auntruth· 27d

Cartoon image (the Simpsons) of a bus driver saying "DON'T MAKE ME TAP THE SIGN." Text on the sign: "The South is full of good people who are on your side that are held back by gerrymandreing, disenfranchisement, and regressive policies."

Aunt Ruth@auntruth· Jul 9

BINGO for putting this in terms of "a 33yo observant Judean Jewish man of that era." Here is a helluva theological/cultural project. Caused a kerfuffle in 1970, I seldom hear it mentioned these days. I am but a laywoman, but it still seems solid and sensible. www.goodreads.com/book/show/14...

Image of a book cover: William E. Phipps, "The Sexuality of Jesus" (Brown cover, orange text, abstract typographical swirls are the only decoration.)

Aunt Ruth@auntruth· Jul 8

Precision in terms improves our thinking! One more, then I'll back away slowly...

Aunt Ruth@auntruth· Jul 8

I find wonderful mottos and samplers on Pinterest these days, eg:

Aunt Ruth@auntruth· Jul 1

Don't need a time machine to test that. Quakers were hanged in Boston for believing wrong. At first, only for preaching. But after more Quakers kept coming, defying the laws, the colony's theocratic leaders hanged Mary Dyer for daring to return after being banned. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Dyer

1905 watercolor illustration imagines a scene in Boston when it was part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. It depicts Mary Dyer, a middle-aged woman wearing an ankle-length brown dress with white collar, cuffs, and cap. She is walking on a cobblestone street from her jail cell to the gallows. Mary Dyer is surrounded by a crowd of Puritan men, with drummers in the lead, followed by uniformed men with muskets. Her eyes are uplifted to the sky and she stands straight and tall. (One woman is seen at the edge of the image, head bent and looking away.) Dyer was one of many Quakers executed by the Colony's theocratic government.

Aunt Ruth@auntruth· May 22

Must admit, I would find somewhere to wear this.

Screenshot of post by HollywoodJunkyard. Text: "These are gloves. GLOVES. The most extravagant gloves I have ever seen. [Schiaparelli, of course, 1950's] IMAGE: Color photo of a headless body form wearing a dark green silk velvet garment. At first glance it is an open, waist-length cocoon jacket of voluminously draped velvet, with slightly puffed shoulders and no separation of the sleeves from the draping. A narrow strip of the front of the body is exposed, from neckline down to the waist. The cocoon shape smoothly hugs each wrist, and self-fabric gloves are smoothly attached.

Aunt Ruth@auntruth· May 10

Taking us right back to the fundamentals:

Two color news photos of Black men being arrested by white police or troopers during voting-rights protests. Top: Martin Luther King jr taken into custody, 1964. Bottom: Tennessee legislators taken into custody, 2026. Juxtaposition of the graphics via ‪@sassycc.bsky.socia

Aunt Ruth@auntruth· May 4

The falcon's chatelaine for 50 years, until her Duke died in 2004: Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, last of the Mitford sisters, quite fond of birds.

Famous black and white photo by Lucien Freud, 1995. Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (aka "Debo" stands serenely in front of her house wearing a ball gown and grand taffeta wrap. She holds a bucket of feed in her left hand, and with a large silver serving spoon in her right hand she grandly scatters feed for a flock of assorted chickens who surround her.

Aunt Ruth@auntruth· May 4

Wider view: loveisspeed.blogspot.com/2012/02/cats...

Color photo of a metal sculpture of a falcon, standing, showing the whole figure from the front, with one leg raised as the claws grip a rock. The bird's head, wings, body, legs are encrusted with faceted red garnets of several sizes. Its beak is gold. A mirror behind the sculpture shows a partial view of the back of its wings. The rocks below the bird are paved with small oval stones in pale blue. This is known as the Kniphausen Hawk, made in 1697, now in the Chatsworth House collection.

Aunt Ruth@auntruth· May 4

Speaking of garnets: The Kniphausen Hawk (1697). Vessel made for a Count of the Holy Roman Empire. A hawk encrusted with red garnets, amethysts, emeralds, and blue sapphires. (Chatsworth House, UK). The Saxons had much finer taste - but what a mess of gems! www.chatsworth.org/visit-chatsw...

Color photo of a metal sculpture of a falcon, standing. The bird's wings, breast, neck, and head are encrusted with faceted red garnets of several sizes. Its beak is gold. This is known as the Kniphausen Hawk, made in 1697, now in the Chatsworth House collection.

Aunt Ruth@auntruth· Apr 22

Love their later albums, after the guns...

A black and white engraving of a skeleton with bright colors added. Against a clear blue sky, the skeleton is picking red roses, holding a wreath of red roses, with another wreath of red roses crowning their head. OLD PEOPLE will recognize this as a Grateful Dead image from their American Beauty era.

Aunt Ruth@auntruth· Apr 18

Dunno, Fred always had gainful employment, and AFAIK he never strayed from his first wife. I get more of a Yogi Bear vibe. Bone-deep confidence that he's smarter than the average bear - cheerful disregard of any "rules" that stand between him and a pic-a-nic basket - easy to catch in the act.

Hanna-Barbera cartoon character Yogi Bear, looking straight at the viewer with a surprised and befuddled expression.

Aunt Ruth@auntruth· Apr 18

Another compilation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASxg...

Still from animated "ARCHER" series: Malory Archer, a commanding silver-haired white woman in a business suit with expensive pearl jewelry and a bobbed haircut, holding a drink. TEXT: "Well, if I did want a grandchild, I would just scrape all your previous mishaps into a big pile and knit a onesie for it."

Aunt Ruth@auntruth· Apr 18

MALLORY ARCHER, kids! Jessica Walters was the Queen. (Here are six minutes of evidence: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYMB... )

From the animated series "Archer," a head-and-shoulders still of Archer's mother, Malory Archer. She wears a business suit with two strands of pearls and large pearl earrings. Her silver hair is cut in an expensive chin-length bob, and she has sunglasses propped on her head whose frames match her suit. A text box has a quote: "Well, people in hell want ice water." - Malory Archer

Aunt Ruth@auntruth· Mar 22

Don't forget this hot-tub photo op. Only the best people! (Not *just* milk, either. Whole-fat milk, not that woke reduced stuff. Cowmilk, not those soyboi options. And RAW milk, because your healthy white-nationalist DNA can easily handle whatever might have gotten into it from the cows' butts.)

Color still from a video clip, showing RFK, jr and Kid Rock, naked above the waist, in a hot-tub with strongly blue lighting, toasting each other with glasses of milk. Superimposed is a title in a rounded, "dripping" font of white capital letters: WHOLE MILK. (NOTE: RFK jr's "nutritional guidelines" urge large quantities of whole-fat milk, and he has also promoted "raw' (unpasturized) milk.)

Aunt Ruth@auntruth· Mar 22

Equipboard shows this one used by Howard when Alabama Shakes performed HOLD ON for Letterman in 2012. Not sure it's the same guitar she used in the SINNERS performance at the Oscars. But it certainly hit me as a tribute.

Aunt Ruth@auntruth· Mar 22

Indeed - a transitional model. That equipboard post has a few nice details - see the alt text. "These gradual changes allow us to confirm the exact year and model: a 1962 Gibson Les Paul SG. The Maestro vibrato was replaced by the vibrola in 1963 and the "Les Paul Custom" logo moved... in 1962.

Aunt Ruth@auntruth· Mar 21

Y'all - Look again at Brittany Howard in the SINNERS performance at the Oscars. See that white Gibson Les Paul that she's working? Sister Rosetta inhabited that stage! RESPECT. equipboard.com/submissions/...

Color photo of BRITTANY HOWARD, at the 2026 Oscars performance of "I Lied to You" from SINNERS. She is wearing a caftan with a swirling psychedelic print, a mohawk afro, vintage dark glasses with small oval lenses. She is playing a white Gibson Les Paul electric guitar with great gravitas, in obvious tribute to Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Aunt Ruth@auntruth· Mar 14