Paul McGhee

Shame we didn't have this in 2015/16.

TIL: John Betjeman owned Henry James' morning suit and later passed it on to John Wells. Apparently, Betjeman was exactly the same size as James. I find this utterly charming.

#ReduceReuseRecycle

Important work.

I look forward to East Anglia being festooned with English flags to celebrate this great National occasion.

Sorry, can't be distracted from my current obsession - pioneering Egyptian nationalists in the Waft party and their textile artistic heritage :-)

Brilliant!

Silk and linen thread dyed a rich purple-red

This is a ridiculously stunning colour to come from mulberries.

They will have the best desktop accessories

It's not just the salaries. It's all the additional support staff, housing and relocation expense, lab kit and endless ego-massaging needed. Best they stay at home and sort out their own country.

Gonna de-clutter, paint my table white and head down to the garden centre.

Intellicore Aberdeen

Anthropic

Pretend company

Qargo

Only one of these is a world-leading AI company. Don't you wish you were smart, 30, wore tight black t-shirts. Would you like an office with white desks, healthy plants and silvery laptops? This workplace aesthetic is so ..... LinkedIn ...init?

UK Universities can't really afford Americans though. We'd need to sack about three locals to take one in.

Bruce going deep this morning

I think we've reached Peak Insincerity.

I think it might look better the other way up, but hard to say with that design.

A large heavy Egyptian tapestry dangles precariously from a rail made from chrome plated water pipe. Held up by shower curtain rings and loops of double strength hemp yarn

Just added extra supporting brackets so the rail can carry all 13kg of my new tapestry!

Yes. I can't think of anything comparable, except maybe some of those early 20th Century Scandinavian creations.

Perhaps it would help to de-scale the platform in some way. Maybe it's really a stack of unconnected communities in a trenchcoat, each with a different take on how moderation should be.

Yes, and a cautionaryblesson to double- check the dimensions before you buy rugs in online auctions!

Yes, and not enough shelf space!

Apologies! I'm sure you're right about that. Here's the previous page from Luther Hooper's book showing a jig for making individual heddles rather than arrays of them "knitted" together. He was a silk weaver, so the knitting was probably the quickest way to make large numbers.

Who better to hold the purveyors of misinformation to account than our local Professor of Accounting?

Suggest you follow him.

Rug of the Day

Mushwani Baluch rug with unusual border seen on the car boot sale on Sunday. (Coutesy of Larry, who's getting good at spotting them)

The US Constitution is finished, isn't it?

It's a linguistic survival from Old English when cnytan just meant "knotting" rather than that clever stuff with needles. The device only "knits" one specific thing - the heddle loops - rather than being an all-purpose knitting machine.

Made a rug hanging rail from B&Q water pipe and shower curtain rings. East Anatolian relic catching the autumn light nicely.

Four men in an early 20th Century bakery have loaded about 50 loaves onto a large tray designed to be wheeled into an industrial oven on a cast iron trolley thing.

From my box of random postcards Unidentified bakery by Newmarket photographer, Edgar Young. Is this the Co-Op on Old Station Road making bread for soldiers in the 1914 recruitment camp? Or some big local institution?

I presume everyone has one :-)

AI girlfriends seem to bear the same relation to prostitution as online gambling does to real-life gaming tables or crypto does to bundles of cash. The ultimate digitization of everything illicit.

This is brilliant. Not only a serious analysis of Japanese colour, but also inspiration for what to plant in your dye garden next year.