#french academia

[cafeblossomss]

post-therapy rest + recoup || 11/14/23

#mine #light academia #green academia #academia #cottage academia #cottagecore #dark academia #books #journaling #french academia #autumn academia #dark academic aesthetic #classic academia #academiacore #chaotic academia #chaotic academic aesthetic #academia outfit #light acadamia aesthetic #fall academia #light academia aesthetic #books and coffee #bookstagram #bookblr #books and libraries #books and reading #bookish #bookworm

[airlealilac]

Beauxbatons Academy of Magic

Photos not mine! Found on Pinterest!

#beauxbatons #aesthetic #light academia #aesthetic pictures #light academia aesthetic #light academia moodboards #light academia lifestyle #french academia #hogwarts aesthetic #harry potter aesthetic #fleur delacour #romantic academia #classic academia #harry potter moodboard #hogwarts moodboard

[bones-ivy-breath]

L'érotisme de Georges Bataille (tr. Mary Dalwood)

Translation

Man goes constantly in fear of himself. His erotic urges terrify him.

#georges bataille #L'érotisme #mary dalwood #quote #citation #dark academia #frenchblr #aesthetic #literature #french academia #français #poesie #littérature #langblr #french studyblr

[long-sleeved-sandwich]

can yall please explain to me the point of Albert Camus’s The Stranger? i read it and thought it was a pretty good book, but i felt like i had to be missing something. it’s so hyped up in academia circles but it didn’t really seem to stand out much from other classics. what am i missing?

#dark acamedia #light academia #green academia #academia #dark academia aesthetic #albert camus #camus #the stranger #french academia #french literature #classic literature #literature #algerian literature #20th century literature #1900s literature #absurdist fiction #existentialism #existentialist fiction

[die-rosastrasse]

François Martin-Kavel & pink fabrics

French, 1861-1931

#art #painting #classical art #women in art #art detail #fine arts #art history #french art #François Martin-Kavel #pink aesthetic #pink #19th century art #19th century #fashion history #historical fashion #textiles #art lover #historical art #painting detail #light academia

[bebs-art-gallery]

The Apparition (detail), 1885

— by James Tissot

#painting #art #art history #french art #oil on canvas #oil painting #dark academia #classic academia #classical art #romantic academia #artist #dark academia aesthetic #religious painting #religious art #art blog #goth #gothic #whimsigoth #whimsicore #whimsical #ghost #ghosts #artblr #art community #artists

[learnelle]

My Baudelaire presentation + essay are finally submitted! I’m basically done with this evening diploma in French and honestly… it’s a relief. Consistency really pays off, even when the end doesn’t seem in sight ⭐️

#I still don’t know how I found the time to attend courses from 3 different universities 👁️👁️ While working 💀 #And you know what? Mid breakdown last year I vowed to never commit to evening courses again because they’re just sooo fatigant #And STILL when I submitted my work I went through the catalogue of other languages this uni offers 🥴 2 year German course next semester? 👀 #studyblr #light academia #studyspo #dark academia #Cottagecore #langblr #cozycore #French langblr

[metamorphesque]

— A Prayer, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 

[text ID: I’m only asking for strength for my days. Teach me the art of small steps.]

#antoine de saint exupéry #a prayer #quotes #literature #translated literature #classic literature #french literature #dark academia #poetry #romantic academia #light academia

[etherealacademia]

a secondhand bookstore in montmartre

#bookblr #dark academia #light academia #studyblr #french aesthetic

[ancientsstudies]

Château de Versailles by michaelthecanadian.

#versailles #Château de Versailles #royal #paris france #paris #paris aesthetic #paris art #france #france art #france aesthetic #french #french art #french architecture #alternative #aesthetic #dark academia #dark academic aesthetic #dark aesthetic #aestheitcs #dark #art #light acadamia aesthetic #light academia

[cafeblossomss]

november 8 🍂📺🧦 || having kind of a relapse day — MS symptoms are in full swing and depression is strong. but at least it’s a beautiful sunny fall day and i can open the windows and see beautiful things out there even when i don’t feel beautiful inside

#mine #light academia #green academia #academia #cottage academia #cottagecore #dark academia #books #hourly cats #orange cat #cute cats #french academia #chaotic academic aesthetic #chaotic academia #academiacore #autumn academia

[jamiesansible]

I’m sure everyone remembers the article from 2020 where researches found three-ply cordage made by Neanderthals.^

But did you know that in the supplemental material for the article, it mentions that pine needles can be made into textiles?^^ As someone who works with textiles myself, I had come across pine needles as a dye stuff, but not as a fibre.

The source is listed as "L’acquisition des matières textiles d’origine végétale en Préhistoire" by Fabinne Médard. It talks about how other fibres, including brambles and broom could have been used prehistorically for a similar purpose, as well as flax. However, it contains only one metion of pine needles.

“Les aiguilles du pin sylvestre (Pinus sylvestris L.) fournissaient, après rouissage, une matière textile appelée « laine des forêts » qui remplaçait la ouate et l’étoupe dont on faisait également des tissus (Mathieu [1858] 1897)" * The needles of the Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) provided, after retting, a textile material called “forest wool” which replaced wadding and tow from which fabrics were also made.

So Scots pine needles were processed, spun and woven, or simply used directly after processing, potentially prehistorically.

If you follow the source for the quote above, it takes you to a book from 1860 called Flore forestière; description et histoire des végétaux ligneux qui croissent spontanément en France et des essences importantes de l'Algérie. It says:

“On fabrique depuis quelques années, avec les faisceaux fibreux, allongés, et tenaces des aiguilles, une espèce de drap grossier.” ** For several years, we have been making a kind of coarse cloth using the fibrous, elongated and stiff bundles of the needles.

So this processing of pine needles was also happening in the 1800s.

Another souce from the 1840s describes the texture of forest wool as resembling "...horsehair, and has been used for stuffing mattresses"** and that an industry sprung up in Humboldtsau, near Breslau for processing it. Manufacturies for forest wool then spread to Sweden, Holland and France, which may explain the mention in the 1860 Flore forestière.

Despite looking a bit more, but couldn't find much else on the subject expect a recent masters thesis in German (which I couldn't access) and an article on the designer Tamara Orjola.

Orjola's work investigates the modern use of pine needle fabric, showing there is still interest in it. She says:

"Forest Wool began with research on the forgotten value of plants. Valuable local materials and techniques are left behind due to the unwillingness of mass-production to adopt more sustainable practices. In the old days the pine tree was used as food, remedies, to build homes and furniture and for many other purposes. Nowadays, it is only valuable for its timber." ***

I find the line from prehistory to now facinating - that people have looked to something as mundane as a pine needle to spin, especially as researchers are discovering a lot of what they thought was linen fabric is actually ramie (from nettles).

As far as I can tell, only Pinus sylvestris L. and one other variety was used. I am not sure what makes that tree more suitable than other pine trees, or if it was simply a question of availability. In terms of processing, the answer as far as I can tell is retting, presumably followed by scutching and hackling - similar to how flax is processed. However I have not done that myself and cannot speak to the specifics.

It would be something intresting to try though.

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^ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-61839-w#MOESM1

^^ https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs41598-020-61839-w/MediaObjects/41598_2020_61839_MOESM1_ESM.pdf

* https://journals.openedition.org/nda/602

** https://www.proquest.com/openview/276605d708970d416923b94e8856d20b/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=41445

*** https://lampoonmagazine.com/article/2021/05/15/recycled-wood-pine-needles-byproduct/

#fabric #history #i was consumed by the spirit of academia and could not stop reading french articles #please excuse the use of Google translate #my French is okay but not academic article good #it’s just a super interesting topic #the variety of plant fibres used for textiles is always larger than I think

[bones-ivy-breath]

The Litany of Satan or Les Litanies de Satan by Charles Pierre Baudelaire, from The Flowers of Evil (tr. William Aggeler)

Translation:

O you, the wisest and fairest of the Angels, God betrayed by destiny and deprived of praise,

#les litanies de satan #charles baudelaire #les fleurs du mal #quote #citation #aesthetic #dark academia #littérature #poésie #french academia #french langblr #french studyblr #typography #the flowers of evil #dark things

[tarttwannabe]

on the agenda for april 01 — a new month, but hardly the time to appreciate it; my mid-terms begin tomorrow and there is still a lot left to cover. it is dreadfully hot, and feels more like midsummer than spring. i am dreaming already of colder weather. nothing on the agenda except study study study, and then after a little study break, study some more.

#c.txt #studyblr #aesthetic #dark academia #light academia #academia #academia aesthetics #agenda.txt #chaotic academia #dark academia aesthetic #french langblr #classics #literature

[stanleyscubrick]

Agnès Varda: ‘I am still alive, I am still curious. I am not a piece of rotting flesh’

#agnes varda #film #writing #literature #studyblr #studyspo #dark academia #booklr #chaotic academia #light academia #romantic academia #classical academia #watched cleo from 5 to 7 recently #and went down this rabbit hole #cinematography #french new wave

[die-rosastrasse]

Émilie Lévy & Louis Français

Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 24 VIII 2023

#art #painting #classical art #museums #dark academia #art detail #fine arts #art history #historical art #musee d'orsay #french art #celestial #dark academia aesthetic #art academia #painting detail #moon #moon art #celestial art