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#just thinking about that ancient scythian plush bird sculpture
banji-effect Ā· 1 year
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The ancient world was full of textile masterpieces we can only imagine... but most of them have rotted away. So few of them have come down to us in these days that we think of metal and stone as the primary mediums for the oldest artworks. But there were tapestries and fabric work that would have rivaled the finest wrought gold and iron and the first cave paintings.
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