@profmoskowitz

Historian of material culture. I like stuff!

 Madison WI USA
Joined January 2019
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Rebecca Watson@TheRebeccaRiots24 Dec 2025
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.
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On Wisconsin magazine@OnWisMag15 Dec 2025
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. onwisconsin.uwalumni.com/qui…

Quilts as Art and Artifact | On Wisconsin

Two dynamic exhibitions showcase designs that extend far beyond your basic bedspread.

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James Wright@jpwarchaeology11 Dec 2025
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: eventbrite.co.uk/e/buildings…
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Forward Madison FC@ForwardMSNFC13 Dec 2025
It's time to Rally, Madison. 👑
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New Glasgow Society@newglasgowsoc15 Nov 2025
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."
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DaVinci
@BiancoDavinci2 Nov 2025
Yarn dyed with mushrooms. It was created by Alissa Allen, who has been studying mushroom dyeing for over 15 years.
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'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.
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Vtg Fashion Guild@TheVFG24 Oct 2025
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
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Emma Mitchell 💙
@silverpebble19 Oct 2025
17 yo daughter made this on our walk:
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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.
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Past Glasgow@PastGlasgow11 Oct 2025
Look at her. Just look at her.
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So true! (Also what we love about Glasgow!)
The Man in Seat 61@seatsixtyone11 Oct 2025
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…
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Dr Kate Strasdin@kateStrasdin6 Oct 2025
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
Beaded detail of a pink 1930s evening dress by Jean Patou. The photograph focuses on the gold beaded belt and the illusion of pleats

ALT Beaded detail of a pink 1930s evening dress by Jean Patou. The photograph focuses on the gold beaded belt and the illusion of pleats

Full length view of the sleeveless pink and gold beaded evening dress with trompe l’oeil pleats and scoop neckline

ALT Full length view of the sleeveless pink and gold beaded evening dress with trompe l’oeil pleats and scoop neckline

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This is amazing!!
Niall Murphy@MurphyNiallGLA7 Oct 2025
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 🥰👏👍!
This is the tapestry of pre-loved clothing made in a collaboration between Uniqlo and Govanhill Baths Community Trust. Each panel represents a map of a different area of Glasgow. The tapestry is located on the first floor of the new Uniqlo store on Glasgow’s Argyle Street with the street scene in the background.

ALT This is the tapestry of pre-loved clothing made in a collaboration between Uniqlo and Govanhill Baths Community Trust. Each panel represents a map of a different area of Glasgow. The tapestry is located on the first floor of the new Uniqlo store on Glasgow’s Argyle Street with the street scene in the background.

This is the central panel of the tapestry of pre-loved clothing made in a collaboration between Uniqlo and Govanhill Baths Community Trust. The panels has been hand stitched into 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 types and patterns of cloth with the Uniqlo store highlighted in red.

ALT This is the central panel of the tapestry of pre-loved clothing made in a collaboration between Uniqlo and Govanhill Baths Community Trust. The panels has been hand stitched into 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 types and patterns of cloth with the Uniqlo store highlighted in red.

This is the explanatory note describing the collaboration between Uniqlo and Govanhill Baths and what they aimed to achieve with the tapestry.

ALT This is the explanatory note describing the collaboration between Uniqlo and Govanhill Baths and what they aimed to achieve with the tapestry.

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Dr Marina Moskowitz retweeted
Forward Madison FC@ForwardMSNFC17 Aug 2025
Were you a part of history last night? 💜 Hands up if you've already placed your founding member season ticket deposit! 🙌 🙌 🙌
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C20 Society@C20Society30 Jul 2025
💥The Bernat Klein Studio has been saved! This morning the coalition of Scottish heritage organisations secured the property at auction with a winning bid of £279,000. The studio will now be restored, creating a new venue to inspire creative arts in the Scottish Borders, bringing the building back into public and community use. C20 Society looks forward to working closely with the project team as it develops.
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Emma Mitchell 💙
@silverpebble1 Jul 2025
Hydrangea palette, for the big floofy floral dopamine:
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Ephemeral beauty of homegrown sweet peas. I wish I could somehow let you smell them.
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I went away overnight and the sweetpeas went mad!!
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