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A folded woven belt on a pebble backround. Belts is white, black, red, and green. One end is finished in five braids. The other end has a fluffy fringe.

Close up of a woven belt. Pattern is black, white,red, and green. The pattern mimics the pattern of a Kufiya but is in a plain weave.

I'm running a raffle for this kufiya inspired crios (trad irish belt) to help the Sharaf family who recentlyhad to evacuate Jabalia refugee camp with nothing. Raffle is open until October 25th. Tickets are $5.

A large elaborately decorated gold collar on display in the National Museum of Ireland

The Gleninsheen Gorget • Clare • c.800–700 BC

Look carefully at this stunning gold gorget the next time you're in the National Museum of Ireland.

You can see an array of goldworking techniques that form a dazzling testament to the skill of the goldsmiths of Late Bronze Age Ireland.

White text in center reads "the inspiration". Image is a collage showing various images including the god Heimdall blowing a horn with a bifrost depicted as a rainbow arching in the backround. Above is an image of Freya in her chariot draw by cats riding over the rainbow bridge which appears to be aflame. There is also and image showing the whole arc of a rainbow on the backdrop of a rain dark sky. Additionally there are two small images showing the milkyway and the aurora borealis.

Test on image reads "the art" show is several images of a woven belt with a rainbow knotwork pattern woven into it. The rainbow is on a dark grey backround. It's hard to see in the images but the main dark color of the band actually has many small bits of color that give it an oil slick look or the light off a crows feather vibe. On each side of the rainbow knotwork pattern is a section of the same dark backround but with a white dot pattern giving the look of stars. The border of the weaving is white and the edge has a dark dot pattern on white. It is shown on the loom. A close up of the pattern. Rolled displaying the edge dots. Tied around the waist of a person in a long dark gray sweater in that image it is wrapped around the waist twice and the long tails fall vertically in a way that is reminiscent of medieval belts.

Blue header reads "Notably Nordic. Northern lights Auction to benefit the National Nodric Museum" additional text reads "the online auction to support the National Nordic Museum! Link in tree in bio. Less than 20 hrs left" an images shows the same picture of someone wearing the belt as the last image but it's labeled as it's seen in the auction. Package 63. Handwoven irish crios belt 'Bifröst'. Top bid is currently $175"

We are in the last 20 hrs to bid on this weaving I did inspired by the Bifröst of Nordic mythology to support the National Nordic Museum
in Seattle. This is their biggest fundraising event of the year and helps them run all their events and regular museum activity. Link in my bio!

Bidding on this one is now open at the National Nordic Museums annual Northern lights auction until may 4th! The link is in the tree in my bio!

How fare thee on this day the very first in the merry month of may?

Close up of a band weaving in progress. The weaving is pulled tight around the tension peg. About three inches of weaving length is shown. The band is about 2.5 inches wide. The shuttle is between the layers of warp where the weaving ends and the unwoven warp begins. Pattern has a cream border, a column of purple/blue flowers, a column of vines, a column of pink flowers, a column of vines, and a column of purple/blue flowers. There is cream between in column motif.

Current weaving! Flowers for spring!

Super cute gold model boat on a black backround. Body of boat is made with a hammered gold oval piece. Inside the boat are little gold bench stripes. Seven tine oars that are long and thin popping out of the visible side of the boat and are angled down as if paddling at the water. There is a tiny gold rudder of the back and a thin little mast but no sail.

Today I was reminded this little gold boat from 100 BCE Ireland exists and decided to pass on the joy!

Little boat is just under 20 cm long and was found as part of the Broighter hoard on the shore of Lough Foyle in County Derry in 1896.

#archeology

I love this so much!

"one night the mother of the young girl had a dream that if she brought her child to St. Brendan's Well in Kilmeena on Food Friday before the sun would rise and put the child down in to the well three times, the child would come up the third time as a boy."

Saint Brendan said "Trans Rights"

From The Enchanted Bay: edited by Cormac O'Malley, collected by Ernie O'Malley

The ancient Irish ancestors are speaking. They say its the time for an old way of justice to return. They are reminding us what we do to a failed would be king who does not serve the people. The time to chop off nipples is nigh.

JUST FOUND A STORY ABOUT A TRANS MAN TAKING REVENGE FOR THE MURDER OF HIS FAMILY!!!

A white and blue to teal gradient check patterned woven belt. The ends are finished in four braids each. The belt is folded nicely and is 2 inches wide.

Some person (me) wearing the white and blue to teal gradient check patterned woven belt. The ends are finished in four braids each. The belt is tied so the wnds hang down decoratively. the rest of the outfit is a mid thigh length green lace top and loose blue pants. I'm also wearing a gold quilted gorget collar. My hands are behind my back the backround is a white wall.

Finished! I'm calling this one the Loch Síleann mermaids crios! The story abt them will be on my other socials soon. And it's now listed in my shop.

The body of a person wears a dark grey cable knit long sweater with their hands behind their back. Tied at the waist there is a black, white and rainbow woven belt with the ends decoratively hanging down with the ends braided in five braids each. The patterns at the edge of the band depicts a black backround woth white dots evoking the night sky. The center of the pattern show a black background with a knotwork rainbow pattern raised above the res of the weaving.

The finish belt laid on the stone pebble ground. The band is black, white and rainbow. The black and white edge evokes the night sky while a pattern in the venter of the braid is Scandinavian esque knotwork or a rainbow. The back side has rainbow dots.

Finished!

Belt Weaving on an inkle loom. The belt is about 3 inches wide. It has a symmetrical pattern of a thin white border with black dots from the weft followed by a black semi opalescent field with pale gray star dots. The center of the pattern is a rainbow with purple edges and red in the center the threads are picked into a knot work pattern that is slightly puffed out from the black field of the band. The weaving is around the pale wood peg of an inkle loom and the shuttle in in the weaving where the warp threads continue past the woven section. The whole thing is on a back round of white linnen.

Bifröst! Current pick-up weaving on the loom! I'll be donating it to the National Nodric Museums annual Northern lights auction! It's inspired by the famous rainbow bridge from Norse mythology.

Band weaving in progress. A peg of an inkle loom displays a band of about 2.5 inches of width. The band is white and a gradient of blue to turquoise from the edges to the center in a check pattern. The weaving is incomplete with the shuttle still in-between the warp threads. After the shuttle the inwoven warp threads and pulled tight on the loom. The whole loom is sitting in the grass and sunlight makes the whole thing feel of spring.

Crios weaving of the day! Color gradient variation of a black and white pattern from a 1918 crios currently at the National Museum of Ireland.

I see you friend. I'm so sorry for what happening to you and your people. I am doing my best to help several people on Instagram and I cannot help more than those I've already been trying to. I know that doesn't help you and I am so sorry.

A woven belt folded over it's self. It is red, white, gray, and black. The edges show a kind of gray, black and then red and black pattern. The center is pale gray with a red cross like center pattern.

A close up on the belt.

The belt but rolled up. Showing the dotted red and white edge.

Brigid of Kildare swore to never marry a man. She have one beloved her anam cara and fellow nun Darlughdach. Once Darlughdach snuck from their bed to meet a man. Only to change her mind upon discovering her shoes filled with coals. They lived all their lives together dying exactly a year apart.

Tiny green Brigid' cross rests on in the palm. The arms reach from across the palm from the inside of the pinky finger to the outside of the pointer finger. It is green. The style of cross is a woven square with four arms.

I made this tiny Brigid's cross out of pine needles I found on the ground.

A one inch wide woven ribbon with a brown border and a white middle. The center has a bright green cross pattern. It is hitched around a thin branch. The backround is all sticks and ivy.

A house porch with a lattice railing running to the covered roof. A black and blue Kufiya is tied to the lattice work.

Annual reminder to leave out a bit of cloth, a ribbon, a scarf, or even a jacket to be blessed by Brigid and to be your Brat Bhríde for the year! They ward off headaches, and do a bit of protection.

Also a kufiya makes a wonderful choice as a sign of solidarity.

#Brigid

Massive pile of reeds. The reeds are thin, dried, and a light tan color. Even looking at them gives you a splinter.

What did I do today? Reed.
No not read. Reeds.

Getting reedy to make Brigid crosses.

Did you know the iconic four armed cross was popularized by RTÉ in 1961. There are actually many types of Brigid crosses the most common being a diamond shape!

🌈☘️🧈🔥🌈

#brigid

If you're discriminated against or arrested for being trans in Illinois, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com.

Open book page shows front and back view of a closely fitted leg covering with a check pattern. Fits closely around the leg down to the ankle come to a point o. The thighs at center front. The crotch is loosely fitted and rather baggy. The bottom section o. A long coat is also seen but pulled up to shwcase the trews. Image description in book reads "trews from killery, co. Sligo (front and back views). Legs of check woolen fabric; the body of plain. They were probably held taut with instep strap." The rest of the image shows a blue and white check woven wool fabric layed over the bottom section of the page along with a plain blue fabric.

👀 these trews from 17th century Killery out of this nice blue and white wool? The original would have been black or blue and probably yellow.

if you live in a highly diverse area i highly suggest printing out a few of these and affixing them to a public area in some manner

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The baby!!!!

I did hear the historians calling them that!

Two 1400's knights in plate mail. One wears a blue cote the other a cote of red, yellow, and blue. Their waists are snatched. They have helmets with no vision and stare lovingly into eachothers eyes. The one on the right has is hand on the others shoulder while in turn the one on the left has his hand on the others waist. There is no heterosexual explanation. They both wear long pionted shoes that were associated with queer people in the middle ages. Image is from a manuscript and shows signs of age and deterioration especially by the feet.

Found this image while doing medieval fashion research. They are very MLM mail loving mail. Love wins the crusade.

An interior page of a hard back book. Chapter title reads "9 there are no cis gods" layed over the page is a woven band of a bookmark showing the colors of the trans flag in the order pale blue, pink, white, then a pink and blue dot pattern. Then white, pink, pale blue.

A stack of books seen from the top page side of the spin. Each book has a trans flag colored book mark in it.

I've restocked my transflag book marks if anyone is interested. They are pay what you want as a donation to the Transgender Law Center. Or if you are trans and want one free let me know. Book is "Godly heathens" by H.E. Edgmon.
Bookmarks are made by my own agender they/them hands.

Yeah. I didn't finish American gods when I tried to read it. but I really liked Neverwhere and Stardust and that's ruined now.

Also last year was the 1500 anniversary of her death so this year Feb 2nd is the 1500 of her life partner and fellow nun Darlughdach who died a year and a day after her of a broken hear. But like they were just roommates (no other possible explanation) 🌈

Each is inspired by a story of Brigid! From her demand for generosity to her persevering flame and her love of butter!