Ball Gown, 1889, House Of Worth, The Met, Silk

One of my favorite little facts about history is that the Mexican peso was functionally the everyday unit of currency in China in the 19th and early 20th century. Silver was one of the few western commodities that Chinese merchants were willing to trade in at rates that made shipping it to China (an expensive, arduous process) profitable; this trade became so voluminous by the 19th century that large everyday transactions even far away from port cities were conducted in pesos, in large part because Mexico's large domestic silver supply and existing transpacific trade links meant that the currency was stable (a known quantity to merchants in a time and place where relatively pure silver coins were otherwise uncommon) and readily available for use in trade

Damn girlie, reblogging cause those dresses are too pretty <3

Decided on making a zhuyao as planned and an embroidered pouch for a friend from the leftovers <3

I got this fabric originally to make a 主腰, but the store gave me half a meter extra cause it had some imperfection, so now I have w hole meter and idk what to make out of it, help

It’s 100% silk, lightweight but quite stiff

I got this fabric originally to make a 主腰, but the store gave me half a meter extra cause it had some imperfection, so now I have w hole meter and idk what to make out of it, help

It’s 100% silk, lightweight but quite stiff

I don’t have time for both, I have my grocery store job :( I wanted to try Poliński shorthand system, I heard it’s the best for writing in polish, but also I haven’t embroidered in a few months now and I fell a new motivation for it coming…

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Why do in so many cultures brides have their faces covered during the wedding?

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Does anyone who has access to Chinese websites could help me find a pattern for a warring states period hanfu? I would really appreciate it <3 <3 <3

Apparently in China peach wood (Along with the rest of the plant) is believed to have properties that repel evil spirits, a little similar to silver in European legends or iron for both European fae and West Asian/Middle eastern Jinn. Taoists sometimes keep swords made of peach wood because of this. This made me realize something. If you took a peach wood stick, and attached studs to it of both silver and iron you'd end up with a club or staff (or mace, flail etc.) that would have the weaknesses of many kinds of supernatural creatures while still retaining effectiveness as a normal weapon (peach is a hardwood and silver's poor edge retention doesn't matter for studs). You could even keep adding new stud materials to get something ridiculous that affects over 120 catalogued folkloric monsters. Since you just need a few little studs you could even get some really expensive materials like meteoric iron (a thumb tip sized meteorite can still cost like 10-20 bucks I think). I could somewhat feasibly make a weapon that affects every monster ever thought to walk the earth, from vampires and werewolves to jinn and jiangshi and even mankind.

Thanks, I always mess up those early periods <3, sorry for the confusion

Does anyone who has access to Chinese websites could help me find a pattern for a warring states period hanfu? I would really appreciate it <3 <3 <3

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