Nic Kipar

That moment, last year, when the tablet weaving won. The first tablet weaving, the second won as well.

That is an accurate description of 90-95% of meetings - with humans - I have been at throughout my 26 years stint in HE.

💥 A Whole Lot of History 💥

Post-excavation finds processing from the Neolithic site of Ness of Brodgar on Orkney, one of Europe’s most important prehistoric discoveries, has revealed a 5,000-year-old fragment of decorated stone.

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Not any longer, sadly, but I remember walking on the field at Sutton Hoo. There was nothing that stopped you. Granted, it didn't have a visitor centre or anything else, but personally, I loved it.

I rather use (and did/do use) my own not-very-good drawings.

Two cats are lying side by side on a desk. The left one is white with black Dalmation spots, and the right one is black with a sliver of white chin showing. Their heads are turned toward each other.

Happy Valentine's Caturday from Tristan and Giro

Abstracts for the Historical Clothing and Textiles in Europe 3-day conference 26-28 February 2026. #MedievalSky #DressHistory zenodo.org/records/1863...

Not Friday any longer, but worth a repost. Glorious burial clothes c.1600.

1503-06 The mocking of Christ in full. In the front is a man from the back, wearing tight hose and a short doublet.

Closeup of the man's trouser seat with interesting panels in the construction

Closeup of the leg and a different view of the construction seams, also picked out

Closeup of the man's trouser seat with interesting panels in the construction, drawn on in yellow to show where they are

1503-06 The mocking of Christ, Matthias Grünewald. Photos by me taken in 2015, Alte Pinakothek, Munich. Note the interesting hose construction, including a crotch gusset similar to underarm gussets. I picked out the seams in yellow to show their position. #DressHistory

Welcome to February! Every month in 2026 we give you the gift of calendar pages from several of Penn's books of hours - illustrating the variety of books we have in our collection. Enjoy! #medievalsky

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I was very lucky, I’d done almost all of my digital medieval manuscript research with the BL before it was hacked. Things are still not fully up. How many years has it been? So sad.

And on the seventh day Gupta finished his work that he had done, but he did not rest on that day, instead he sat with his head in his hands mumbling “my life is a meaningless sham”

And this is the sole basis for these ideas. "Humanities are subjective, but the subjects I value are objective" is just ignorance and being a boring person. And that's fine, that's cool, you do you, but you're... wrong. And it's ok to be wrong, but so many people being wrong together is annoying.

The ignorance that poster evidenced here is staggering. Let's compile a list of literature they should read. Starting with the most obvious, the history and philosophy of science.

Nope. See me after class.

Looks a bit like a giant version of pouncing balls used for transferring embroidery patterns

The sun is shining onto blue, amethyst, and red tumbled semi precious stones. They are glittering and glistening, with their gilded settings shimmering gold.

Whenever I need a creative practice research motivation boost, I look at this photo of the semi precious stones in their gilded settings, that I made for the gold and silk yoke embroidery of the 1200 bliaut. #HistoricalDress

I’m the normalest of normal about it. Honest.

I am testing out ElevenReader to read research papers to me (my brain likes to do both reading and listening and notices/connects/ruminates/memorises/etc different things for each) and I am creeped out - because it is so good. Holy Heck, this is... just creepy. Iconic real voices. So creepy.

Nearly perfect. I am impressed. Only flip round dafur ich mich entschuldige to dafuer entschuldige ich mich and voila!

Exploring European Historical Clothing and Textiles at an International Conference The Institute of Latvian History at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Latvia, in cooperation with the Latvian Association of Archaeologists and an international team of organisers, will h...

Invitation to the international Exploring European Historical Clothing and Textiles online conference 26–28 February 2026. You can register as a listener, details are on the page. Go on... you know you want to. #MedievalSky #HistoricalDress
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Reposting the fabulous Woven into the Earth book about the Herjolfsnes find in Danish Greenland which is part of Denmark. Just saying.

Och nee, mein Kopf ist so interessant, das ist schon OK

Meanwhile, I adore her clothing. Brilliant blend of India and Europe.

I'm German, and if I could still eat bread, it would be freshly baked 'Doppelback' from the baker in the next village, with butter, Gouda cheese and maybe, just maybe, sliced 'Kassler' meat. No toaster must come close to German bread. This isn't the fluffy "bread" (untoasted toast) Island. 😄

A selection of accessories from the exhibition. 1/2

An excellent accessibility tip for menopausal fog-brains. I might speak from experience.

A big red pencil lying across the photo and on top of a printout of my PhD thesis.

I just realised that my favourite corrections, underline, and short-notes pencil is from my student days. My first student days, nearly 40 years ago. Say that for pencil longevity.

Wonderful. I immediately followed his account.