Dr Marina Moskowitz

Historian of material culture. I like stuff!

[Dr Marina Moskowitz @profmoskowitz]

@dieworkwear Really enjoyed this thread! Have you read Malcolm Gladwell’s essay ‘Listening to Khakis’ from 1990s New Yorker—you might enjoy!

[Dr Marina Moskowitz @profmoskowitz]

@readswithravi Most recently, Ann Patchett. Also Julia Glass.

[Rebecca Watson @TheRebeccaRiots]

I have an annual Christmas tradition of baking a Sachertorte and decorating it. It’s my happy moment of zen, just for me, every year. Here’s 2025’s effort.

[On Wisconsin magazine @OnWisMag]

Two @UWMadison quilt exhibitions celebrate the naming of the School of Human Ecology’s Nancy M. Bruce Center for Design and Material Culture. See how quilt artists are both honoring tradition and pushing it in new directions.
https://t.co/oLdFoCnfXG

[James Wright @jpwarchaeology]

The algorithms are making it a lot harder to spread the word about these online talks. Although numbers are still reasonable, it would be a great help if folk were able to give the 30 December event a quick share 🙂

Booking available here:
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[Forward Madison FC @ForwardMSNFC]

It's time to Rally, Madison. 👑

[Dr Marina Moskowitz @profmoskowitz]

@fopminui What a beautiful work! And the colour balance is excellent!

[New Glasgow Society @newglasgowsoc]

As part of #Glasgow850, our ‘Talks’ series brings together writers, artists, and historians to uncover the many layers of the city’s history and culture. This month, Dr Robyne Calvert joins us to talk about "Through The Fires: Mackintosh & The Glasgow School of Art."

[DaVinci @BiancoDavinci]

Yarn dyed with mushrooms. It was created by Alissa Allen, who has been studying mushroom dyeing for over 15 years.

[British Gardening History @britgardhistory]

'November' from Eliot Hodgkin's 'The Months', 1950. A brocade-coloured chrysanthemum, reddening geranium leaves, the first blanched chicory, arbutus unedo fruits, bulbs and seeds for autumn planting.

[Vtg Fashion Guild @TheVFG]

Evening Dress, “Princess” Collection, Cristóbal Balenciaga, 1967. This evening gown captures the restrained grandeur of Balenciaga’s final Paris years, when his vision of modern elegance had distilled to pure line and surface.
Cristóbal Balenciaga Museo, Getaria (Spain)
Paredes

[Emma Mitchell 💙 @silverpebble]

17 yo daughter made this on our walk:

[Liza Adamczewski or the accidental ecologist @lizaadamczewski]

For everyone who’s feeling flat, low, or just plain exhausted here’s a painting of some sweet peas to lift your mood. The antique pink lustreware jar has the Sailors Farewell on the side.

[Past Glasgow @PastGlasgow]

Look at her. Just look at her.

[Dr Marina Moskowitz @profmoskowitz]

So true! (Also what we love about Glasgow!)

[The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone]

Dinner at the Lasg restaurant on Blythewood Square, in a genteel Georgian part of Glasgow I didn’t know existed - but only 10 minutes walk from Central. Big fan of mussels, these were superb. I reckon Edinburgh gets all the attention, Glasgow is hiding its light under a bushel…

[Dr Marina Moskowitz @profmoskowitz]

Amazing!

[Dr Kate Strasdin @kateStrasdin]

So much of the design of this early #1930s dress is about a trick of the eye - the trompe l’oeil - created in the illusion of pleats from the placement of the beadwork that covers the entire garment. Designed by Jean Patou it shimmers in pink and gold @V_and_A #fashionhistory

[Dr Marina Moskowitz @profmoskowitz]

This is amazing!!

[Niall Murphy @MurphyNiallGLA]

Popped into #Glasgow’s new Uniqlo store on Argyle Street to see the new tapestry made in a collaboration between #Uniqlo and @GovanhillBaths.

The tapestry takes pre-loved Uniqlo clothing and, to honour their Japanese heritage and the art of visible mending, transforms it into something completely new with the hand-stitched panels cleverly arranged into maps of Glasgow.

If you look at the central panel you can see that it is an abstracted map of Glasgow’s city centre with key details such as George Square, the St Enoch Centre and Glasgow Central Station picked out in different colours, types, folds, and patterns of cloth with the Uniqlo store highlighted in red.

In other panels you can see Queens Park and the River Clyde as it winds its way through the city.

It is a great way to celebrate how to remake something old into something new thus giving it a new purpose while preserving our heritage, which is exactly what we are trying to do @GovanhillBaths 🥰👏👍!

[Dr Marina Moskowitz @profmoskowitz]

@urbanponds101 Love them!

[Dr Marina Moskowitz @profmoskowitz]

@jbf1755 But hasn’t everyone of our generation done all these things? What is the aim of accruing points? To show how young you are? Confusing….

[Forward Madison FC @ForwardMSNFC]

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