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Guest - Katrin Sprang Discussion

18 September 2026

Hi Rachel, I have looked for more photos of you, but that was not very successful. I found a link on...

Guest - Beatrix Sprang Discussion

15 September 2026

That lozenge pattern element is not a photograph, but a scan. So it should be to scale. But I pinned...

Guest - Katrin Sprang Discussion

15 September 2026

I was not referring to Rachel's reconstruction (is the reconstruction you refer to the one photograp...

Guest - Beatrix Sprang Discussion

14 September 2026

There is something Rachel did not mention. She told me: "Well, I worked with the measurements we too...

Guest - Katrin Sprang Discussion

14 September 2026

Well, this is certainly developing into an interesting discussion. Firstly, going from that lovely l...

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Monday, 17 February 2020

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Pantone decides on a "Colour of the Year" each year, and for 2020, their choice is "classic blue". As a blue-loving person, I do approve... though I like all kinds of blue, not only classic.

Science has a little news article about what our modern civilisation will leave behind for future archaeologists. (Or alien xeno-archaeologists, if humans go extinct.)

This link will bring you to an image of a tablet-weaving frame in a medieval manuscript. Just because.

The Museum of London has a post about pointed shoes (and sodomy!).

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