A few days ago I went to guédelon and it was the most amazing thing ever
Over the last twenty years they have been working on building a medieval fortress by hand with building methods that would have been used in the 13. century. They expect to be done in about six or seven years
The castle is ‘standardized’ because about a thousand castles were build at the same time by King Phillip II. as a defnece against the english
It already looks beautiful just like that
The even move the stones around on little carriages that have to be moved by two people
Even all the safety structures are made by hand and out of wood (while they are safe just like that, they have to be screwed together as well so they are up to today’s standards)
This will be the highest and most secure tower where the owner would escape to, should the castle be under siege. It has its own water and works mostly independent from the rest of the castle.
These are the wheels used to lift the stones and get them to the top of the wall. They are still moved by people walking inside and the only thing they added was a break so it’s safer otherwise this is a complete reconstruction
The small chapel has the most beautiful window which was made completely by hand and it’s so symmetrical it’s unbelievable
Also there was a little nest of swallows in the chapel which made it extra amazing
The great hall is the only room with very big windows which made the room very lovely and bright. Below the great hall is the storage connected to the kitchen. Above the kitchen behind the great hall is a guest room which would be the warmes room since the cooking fire would be burning below it.
The guest room also had beautiful paintings and the even made the pigment for it themselves
There was so much more and it was so interesting I could have stayed there forever. Anyone who is interested in medieval history and has a chance to go there should definitely do that
I’m gonna stop now because tumblr won’t let me add any more pictures and I have way too much to say about this because they showed so much amazing stuff
I was working with an item today that just utterly flabbergasted a part of me (the other was deeply frustrated with the catalogue record AS SOMEONE APPARENTLY THOUGHT IT WAS PRINTED ON SILK, coming back to that in a minute) … but ANYWAYS … said item is a replica of a medieval manuscript prayer book THAT IS ENTIRELY WOVEN out of grey and black silk … WOVEN … text, images, intricate grey scale, WOVEN … NOT PRINTED …
And it’s flabbergasting because it’s from 1888, Jacquard machine, IT USED PUNCH CARDS to weave these intricate pages … something like 400 weft per near square inch … IT looks like a page of textured paper, but it’s not, it’s entirely SILK … F*CK …
Anyways …
OKS I’ve since calmed down and found out that the reason they used “printed” is because it is essentially printed by a computer … in a weird way; when I import the record, I’m just gonna take that note out …
humans love dressing up so much and get there simply aren’t enough occasions that call for dressing up in unique clothing in contemporary western society. yet another tragic loss to the sensorium
That’s why people have raves and goth nights and stuff
i was actually thinking of georgian chokhas when i made this post but you’re right this would kill it at a goth night
This is your annual warning that *there will be no warning* when fire season is about to start. Nobody’s going to post “Hey everyone, remember, fire season starts next Friday!”. The state will just catch fire. You will wake up and the sky will be orange. It could be tomorrow, it could be July, it could be August, we could get incredibly lucky and skip it altogether. If you hope to buy an indoor air purifier before fire season, if you want to ensure everyone in your home has a P100 for going outside, if you want to stockpile water and you haven’t already, the time to do it is today.
Oh right this is getting notes again. Fuck.
this post is why i got a p100 last year
Yearly reminder to check your go-bags and evacuation plans
When I was fourteen I got ten minutes notice of evacuation from the McLure fire in B.C.
Literally got told “you have ten minutes. Fill your laundry basket with anything you want to take with you. We might not be coming back.”
You want to be prepared BEFORE that point.
Of all the fucking notifications to get. Tantallon is on fire. Next town over from me. 800+ Hectares. There’s another 1000 or so burning down by Barrington and a smaller fire in Bedford.
That first and that last are suburbs of Halifax. So if you was thinking it can’t happen to you, it damn well fucking can.
Oh. Yeah. The Tantallon Fire started on Sunday. It hit 100 Hectares and destroyed 10 homes within 12 hours. Within 24 hours it was 780 Hectares. It’s now over 800 with 200 structures destroyed.
YOU WILL NOT HAVE TIME IF YOU WANT TO LIVE.
So. Go Bag. Important documents. Couple changes clothes. Any medication. Any stuff you need for your pets. Keepsakes.
Keep it somewhere accessible.
Get it in the car first. Then if you have time you can add to it. I have a few bags prepped. They’ll go in the car in order of importance as circumstances permit.
“available with premium subscription” “will be removed on the 31st” “available free with ads” “rent 4.99 buy 20.00″ “not available in your country” “not available on this device” what if every streaming service fucking killed itself and films ran around their fields free and organic in their natural state
