C20 Vintage Fashion

Our archive spans the whole of the Twentieth Century and is a rich source for designers, film & exhibitions .Tweets by Cleo Butterfield

[C20 Vintage Fashion @C20Vintage]

Are there any Arabic speakers out there that can help? I have these two long fine silk hand embroidered
scarves from early twentieth century . I have always imagined that they were made for tourists. Can someone tell me what the calligraphy says?
#1920s #arabiccalligraphy

[ArchaeoHistories @histories_arch]

The Pazyryk Carpet is the oldest known carpet on earth woven 2500 years ago (5th Century BC). It was discovered in Tomb of a Scythian Prince in Pazyryk Valley of Siberia by Russian archaeologist Sergei Rudenko in late 1940s.

The Hermitage - St. Petersburg

#archaeohistories

[Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety]

Procession of white-dressed girls and women, carrying glowing Chinese lanterns, winds its way through Cornish fishing village ~ possibly Newlyn ~ to celebrate Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in 1897 (George Sherwood Hunter) https:// https://t.co/TlfSEFbcIy

[ArchaeoHistories @histories_arch]

A 2500 year-old mummy of a man, also known as the Horseman, with an elaborate tattoo of an elk covering his right shoulder. He was discovered in 1995 in a Pazyryk burial mound in Siberia's Altai Mountains, Russia.

#archaeohistories

[Eleanor Parker @ClerkofOxford]

More fallow leaves in Tolkien's autumnal alliterative poem 'Winter Comes to Nargothrond' https://t.co/fTp5Bm1aUu

'Leaves were loosened from labouring boughs:
fallow-gold they fell, and the feet buried
of trees standing tall and naked,
rustling restlessly down roofless aisles...'

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

A surgical robot delicately removes the outer shell of a raw quail egg while preserving the integrity of the egg's contents.

It then punctures the egg and skillfully seals the puncture point.

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

Rescued from captivity, these two chimpanzee brothers were separated to be treated at two different locations. After they recovered, they were reunited..

The reaction is priceless.. 🥺

[Mordecai @MenschOhneMusil]

Jan Zrzavý (1890-1977) Horses under the Moon, 1919.

[ArchaeoHistories @histories_arch]

Archaeologists have uncovered the largest area of Roman mosaic found in London for more than half a century.

Two highly-decorated panels feature large, colourful flowers, geometric patterns and elaborate motifs in a style unique to the capital.

#archaeohistories

[Eleanor Parker @ClerkofOxford]

And þus yirnes þe yere in yisterdayes mony
And wynter wyndes ayayn, as þe worlde askes...
Til Meȝelmas mone
Was cumen wyth wynter wage.

(And thus runs the year in yesterdays many,
And winter wends again, as the world asks...
Until Michaelmas moon was come
With pledge of winter.)

[Alison Fisk @AlisonFisk]

Something beautiful for the weekend!

An extraordinary Acheulean handaxe knapped around a fossil shell circa 500,000-300,000 years ago.

The maker appears to have deliberately flaked around the shell to preserve and place it in a central position. As a result this handaxe has been described as an early example of artistic thought.

From West Tofts, Norfolk.

📷 Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge https://t.co/8psldM5ZQy

[Fashion Revolution @Fash_Rev]

“Too much clothing, not enough justice” 👗⚖️✊

@theORispresent reveals the realities of the second-hand clothing trade, explains how waste colonialism started and how Kantamanto Market can serve as a model of a sustainable fashion ecosystem.

Read more: https://t.co/jRKzW9LxFK

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

"A 800 year old church in Borgund, Norway; made entirely from wood without a single nail".

Borgund Stave Church; a former Parish Church of Norway in  Lærdal Municipality, Vestland  County, Norway. It was built between 1180-1250 AD, with later additions and restorations. Its walls are formed by vertical wooden boards or staves, hence name Stave Church.

No longer regularly used for church functions, now a museum run by Society for Preservation of Ancient Norwegian Monuments.

📽️ © @christiantrustrup

#archaeohistories

[Dave Haslam @Mr_Dave_Haslam]

Exquisite...

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

One in every four cowboys was believed to be a Black man released from slavery despite the stories told in popular books and movies although the most famous cowboys of the old west were white.

Some notable cowboys!

A THREAD

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Photographer Daniel Antoniol employs an innovative approach to alter perspective, giving the illusion that the moon is being transported

📸daniel_antoniol

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

A French woman walks the streets of Paris, France with a large baguette and six bottles of wine, 1945.

[Imperial War Museums @I_W_M]

Workers of the Kynoch and Vickers Maxim munitions factories play a game of football in Southend, 1918.

Many factories had their on football teams. Read more about football during the First World War here: https://t.co/22hd5bYCat

© IWM 663c

[C20 Vintage Fashion @C20Vintage]

My son Josh, 1972, wearing iconic Mr Freedom Pamela Motown tee shirt

[Natalie Marlow @NatalieMarlow2]

My husband has a friend whose great grandma was a professional wrestler. Her stage name was Fanny Fear Nowt. I think about this nearly every day.