by CCash | Jan 11, 2020 | Blog, DIY History
Venezia, piatto con nervature, soffiato a mezza stampatura e decorato a smalti e foglia d’oro graffita, in cristallo, 1490-1525 ca. Murano Glass Museum. Uploaded by aritist Sailko August 2018. Source It seems that while glass has existed for centuries before...
by CCash | Jan 4, 2020 | Blog, DIY History
1737 Broom Peddler. Etching with some engraving by François Joullain (born 1697), French engraver, printmaker and print seller. Donated to the MET museum by Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953. Source The 1562 Geneva Bible called this instrument the “Besom” it was one of...
by CCash | Dec 28, 2019 | Blog, DIY History, Shakespeare Christmas
It’s still Christmas time and I am not ready to take down the decorations yet! How about you? William Shakespeare would have still had his decorations up this time of year, too, though he wouldn’t have had a Christmas tree like I do here. In fact, for William...
by CCash | Dec 21, 2019 | Blog, DIY History, Shakespeare Christmas
Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet, gives us a brief look at Christmas in Shakespeare’s lifetime when Marcellus, one of Hamlet’s friends who was in on Hamlet’s plot to make everyone think he’s crazy before he kills his uncle for betrayal. And there’s this one speech by...
by CCash | Dec 14, 2019 | Blog, DIY History, Shakespeare Christmas
When we think about Christmas, we think about snow, sleighs with bells, christmas trees, and garland on the fireplace. But for William Shakespeare, not only did he not have a Christmas tree, but he didn’t even have the same kind of mantle we have in our homes today....
by CCash | Dec 7, 2019 | Blog, DIY History
IMAGE: Saint Michael; stained glass in the Pfarrkirche St. Martin in Linz am Rhein (Germany) The legend says “Heil Michael du Gottes Streiter” (Heil Michael, you Warrior of God). 20th c. SOURCE Shakespeare mentions Michaelmas twice in his plays, and both...
