Bayla ~ bellaquill ~ quillful ~ Ianthis

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strings everywhere... I do ancient lyre, ancient fiber arts, modern fiber arts, Greek and Latin. all pronouns check out my youtube https://www.youtube.com/Ianthis, and blog https://quillful.neocities.org/ where I host my projects

a pile of small purple 3D-printed stick shuttles for weaving
The five crochet party members lined up together: rabbit gladiator, magpie priest, mouse thief, turtle bard, snake doctor
A small green crochet snake coiled around a wooden staff. Tied to the staff is some string hanging a tuft of wool and a small red pouch.
A small crochet Eurasian magpie wearing a bright yellow veil and holding a Roman lituus.
A small grey crochet rabbit holding a trident with a dagger at her side
A small crochet green and yellow turtle. He holds a miniature kithara with painted eyes decorating it.
A small brown crochet mouse wearing a blue cloak and a belt with a sword.
A still from the Nolan Odyssey showing Anne Hathaway (presumably as Penelope) standing holding a bow. On her right half in frame is an upright warp-weighted loom.
a small metal wine strainer with small holes punched in it in geometric patterns
Two skeins of yellow yarn dry outside. One is a very bright vibrant yellow, the other a much paler butter yellow.
a skein of yarn floating in a large pot of yellow dye
a pot full of fine white yarn soaking in water and alum
A small pot with a bit of water and saffron threads simmering. This is the first round of extraction - the saffron threads are still bright and intact and the water has turned a golden color.
A small pile of dried saffron threads in a glass bowl. Approximately .5 grams in weight. The dried threads are a dark red color.
In my hand I hold a large pile of plucked saffron crocuses. They are pale purple flowers striped with darker purple with bright yellow stigmas and bright red stamens poking out.
I hold three plucked crocus blossoms
An open saffron crocus. The crocus has pale purple petals striped with dark purple, three orange-red stigmas (the so-called saffron 'thread'), and three yellow stamens.
a furled purple crocus bud
An entry into a glossary: Τυροφλύφος ~ Tyrogluphus; Cheese-scooper. The father of Embasichytros. From τυρός, cheese, and γλύφω, to carve, scoop
I am holding the 1896 Oxford Classical text of Opera Homeri. The cover is red with gold trim, a gold seal, and ΟΜΗΡΟΣ written in gold.
A bathtub filled with soaking alpaca fleece.
A traditional style Japanese building under construction in a large atrium.
An 1800s Algerian beniqa headdress worn by a Jewish women at the mikveh before her wedding. It is richly embroidered with metallic gold thread and colored flowers.
A bronze tassel at the corner of a draped garment. The portion connecting the tassel to the very corner has been lost.
A close-up on a cartonnage mummy cover showing layers and layers of linen scraps. The different pieces have different levels of fineness, though they are all tabby weaves.
A small bag of brown ginned cotton, a pile of white roving, two braids of golden-brown roving, and a large plastic bag full of light brown alpaca fleece. Also a tuxedo cat sniffing at the piles of fiber.
Two miniature felted hats. one is pink and blue and shaped like a sunhat, and one is a dark greek witch hat.
My hand is stained heavily on the fingers and lighting on the palm with pink dye
A warp-weighted loom made of plywood leans again the wall. The loom is warped with a blue, yellow, and pink striped warp weighed down with pyramid-shaped clay loom weights.
A tuxedo cat bats a clay loom weight back and forth. The loom weight is suspended from a collection of warp threads and sways back and forth freely.
A pile of pale blue crocheted wool hearts with pockets. Each pocket has a small card in it with a name of the recipient written on it.
The back page of an old book with Sappho 31 hand-written onto it in ink.
A skein of blue yarn is looped around my knee. I am holding a small ball of yarn that I am in the process of winding by hand off the skein.
I am holding a turkish spindle with a small turtle of turquoise handspun single-ply yarn wound on to it. The yarn is attached to some unspun roving.
A plate of sugar cookies in various cookie-cutter shapes. The front few cookies are hand-cut in the shape of ancient greek lyres.
A digital line drawing of two ancient Greek women over a pale blue background. One woman it spinning thread with a distaff and drop spindle. The other sits beside her playing a lyre and leaning her head on the other's shoulder. The two gaze fondly at one another.
A white marble statuette of a personification of the Nile. He rests on a decorated base. 15 small wingless cupids sit on and around him in various poses. The base is decorated with a Nile scene of river animals, inclusing hippopotami, ibises, a crocodile, and a dog.
A photograph of me wearing a knit hat. The hat is styled after an ancient Greek black-figure vase. A warp-weighted loom is worked in black and white colorwork on a terracotta background.
A black and white line drawing of a series of mice in various stages of putting on armor. The mice have helmets made of nuts, reed breastplates and greaves, pot-lid shields, and needle spears. A mouse on the right is collecting reeds for the armor.
A photograph of one large trash bag of brown wool, a plastic bin of brown wool, and a large clear plastic bag of white roving.
A close up photograph of young silkworm larvae in a petri dish. They are crawling around and on top of strands of mulberry chow food.
A photograph of two skeins of thread and an embroidery hoop. The skeins of thread are pale blue handspun embroidery floss. The embroidery hoop holds a sampler of several stitches embroidered using the pictured floss.
A photograph of my hand holding a drop spindle. There is a cop of pale blue thread on the drop spindle, and some un-spun roving attached to the thread.
A photograph of a miniature warp-weighted loom made of dowels. The loom is warped with pink and purple embroidery floss and has meta washers for weights. Beside the loom is a stuffed doll wearing a vest and witch's hat. Next to the doll is a small toy jaguar cub
A photograph of my hand holding a weaving sword. The weaving sword is a wooden tool shaped a bit like a butcher's knife
A photograph of thread and a spindle on a desk. There are several bobbins made of cardboard with white, blue, and pink handspun thread wound on them. On top of them is a simple wooden bottom whorl drop spindle.
A photograph of a warp weighted loom leaving against a wall. The loom is small and constructed out of sticks. A narrow pink strap is in the process of being woven.