Alex Wingate

Just a PSA, I'm only really checking on here on Sundays for Lent, so if I'm slow to reply to things, that's why!

So admittedly I think some folks might need to remember that for a lot of academics the first real interaction we directly have had with "AI" writ broadly was either a) our laziest students trying to cheat or b) whole swathes of our profession being gutted by these kids who don't know anything.

But some are clearly quilts made for specific people/purposes from the descriptions. There are a fair number of art quilts that you could hang on the wall. I imagine some of the large pieced ones are bed quilts for the makers or other people.

I don't really know what other people do with their show quilts. I see people online have big shallow closets or armoires with shelves where they stack them.

Well mine will live in my house! The black one might be a bed quilt at points, but I want to figure a way to hang the book one on a wall (though which one is the issue because there isn't too much free wall space). Otherwise, they sit on a chair in my living room until people come over and are cold!

It feels really good to complete my textile word search letterpress series. I wrote this post so folks can learn about some of my inspirations - plz check out the alt-text. Here I will just say that I am glad to live in a tapestry woven by many hands belonging to people whom I admire very much.

Small quilt hanging with lots of different book fabric in a generally blue color scheme. In the center is a white circle with an appliqued stick figure woman standing over a man lying down. She holds a spear and a book, with the words “Sic Semper Tyrannis” underneath, in homage to the Virginia state seal

Show description from the quilt: “ 604 Art/Innovation Quilt Alexandra Wingate Bloomington, IN Knowledge for All This quilt responds to threats to intellectual freedom at IU and at libraries, in Indiana and throughout the US and encourages resistance to censorship. The center modifies the Virginia seal (my home state) to include a book instead of a sword while preserving the motto "Sic semper tyrannis" (Thus always to tyrants!). Source: Original Design Made By: Alexandra Wingate Quilted By: Alexandra Wingate”

My other quilt didn’t win, but I’m still pleased to have had it in. There weren’t too many protest-type quilts, but they were there!

Me (5’9”/170cm white woman, with dark short hair, glasses, and printed 3/4 length sleeve dress) standing next to my hung quilt, which has the green “commissioner’s choice award hanging next to it

Close up on the award and my description for the quilt. The award looks like a fair ribbon with a little quilted logo of IHQS (i think a tulip basket?) and then “Commissioner’s Choice 2026” on the green ribbon. My description reads: “ 307 Large Pieced Quilt Alexandra Wingate Bloomington, IN EPP Night Garden I loved a few quilts from IHQS 2024 that had black backgrounds contrasting with bold colored prints, and I wanted to create my own design using English Paper Piecing. I hope my love of floral and metallic fabrics comes through! Free-motion and ruler work quilted on a Bernina 570QE. Source: Original Design Made By: Alexandra Wingate Quilted By: Alexandra Wingate”

Full view of the quilt. On a black background, there are many floral motifs in contrasting colors. A center square of printed fabric has a purple, orange, and gold circular floral design surrounded by a square border of green leaves. Around the central square on the sides are english paper pieced blocks of flowers in purples, golds, reds, and whites. At the corners are green leafy motifs (bridal bouquet). In the outer corners are green/blue butterfly motifs, and there are two flowers (penrose tiles) in between each of the butterflies along the sides. The border of the quilt is blue fabric and the binding is black. The whole thing is about 94” (239cm) square

So the Indiana Heritage Quilt Show was this week, and one of my two quilts won an award!! Commissioner’s Choice for “EPP Night Garden”! #quiltsky #DHmakes

A long sleeveless cream satin ballgown decorated with gold trelliswork and floral embroidery

A black and white photograph of women embroiderers from the 1940s working for Norman Hartnell. Two women are working at a frame in front of them beading a piece of silk

An embroidery sample showing a spray of flowers created by Hartnell’s embroiderers for the coronation gown of Queen Elizabeth II

Happy International Women’s Day! Acknowledging the hands of countless women in the needle trades through the lens of the women in Norman Hartnell’s embroidery workroom. Their legacy survives in the glittering gowns they embellished. Dress 1950s #RCT #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

¿Día de la Mujer o Día de la Mujer Trabajadora? La diferencia no es solo terminológica: tiene que ver con los orígenes socialistas del 8M, su evolución histórica y su significado político. El año pasado estuve reflexionando mucho sobre este debate y quiero aportar algunos datos. Va hilo largo, creo:

They don’t deserve the money right now

Tell your dad thank you from a current IU student!

A U.S. scholarship thrills a teacher in India. Then came the soul-crushing questions She was thrilled to become the first teacher from a government-sponsored school in India to get a Fulbright exchange award to learn from U.S. schools. People asked two questions that clouded her joy.

She was thrilled to become the first teacher from a government-sponsored school in India to get a Fulbright exchange award to learn from U.S. schools. People asked two questions that clouded her joy. n.pr/4bfTTCp

I agree that the Q looks like it from some quick googling!

Idea de un Principe politico

Interesting. So a book in the same genre printed in 1658 in Spain has a similar layout for the body (but not quite as much space for footnotes). But none of this 22-page title page nonsense. books.google.com/books?id=gjT...

right?? I'm glad you think it's weird too. I'm waiting for someone to go "Oh this, was in fashion in the 1650s in Spain/Europe!" Which maybe it was! But this seems like a *choice*.

Random opening in the main text showing the two column format of the pages. The inner columns (close to the gutter of the book) has the main text, the outer columns have his footnotes. Footnotes may also spread across the entire bottom width of the page. It's somewhat reminiscent of highly glossed law books from the medieval/early modern periods.

Opening where the right page has a list advertising the other books from the author, Diego Enriquez de Villegas. Nice little paratext!

I want a copy of this edition for my teaching collection now.

Another opening, this one references devotion to the Virgen Mary, so "MARIA" is the biggest text among the chaos that is these pages.

Another opening. Same wild abandon for page design

Another opening. Same wild abandon for page design

The left page of this opening is *finally* the last page of this wild trip in type design. Right page is the normal licenses and pre-publication censorship approval of the book. This is the most normal page in the book.

I want to meet whoever decided on this book design as badly as I want to meet some of my idiot early modern Navarrese scribes.

The next opening. Latin quotes on the left page, beginning of a dedication to Philip IV "El Grande" (Philip IV sure as heck was not great.) on the right page, still looks like it's a title page with all the size of type one could desire.

The next opening. Still making *choices* with type. Also, a lot of BS about the titles of Philip IV. Clearly do not have a capital ñ because it's set as "ESPAñA" in the list of the areas that "obey" Phil IV

Aaaand we're still going in this next opening. Many types sizes, much drama, wow.

Another opening! More text set like a title page in varying sizes of type.

It just. keeps. going. (But now we've got a dedication!)

Title page of "El principe en la idea" by Diego Enriquez de Villegas, printed in Madrid at the Imprenta Real, 1656

First opening after the title page. Verso of title page has a quote from what seems to be the book of Solomon in Latin (book 3, chapter 3, verse 7). Recto of opening has a centered column of text in many different fonts ala an early modern title page

Another two pages of the weird title page/intro thing. The printer is using *ALL* the types. All the text is centered, the font size varies. It's all very dramatic and quite a statement.

The dude is still going. And it's totally like a title page advertising it's content. But we're like 6 pages after the title page??? He's just saying what is going to be in the book.

Graphic design is my passion, but make it early modern:
There's a book called _Principe en la idea_, and someone got new type & wanted to use ALL of it, or the author wanted to have a 22-page title page? & the body has an entire column for footnotes?
books.google.com/books?id=EP1...
#BookHistory

I can't wait for more RSAs with y'all!!

Omg @13thgravegypt.bsky.social I told Mr E that Finland got the bronze in men's hockey, and he immediately replied, "...You might call that a third-place Finnish, ja?"

That theater is so pretty!!

Suprematism, by Nikolai Suetin, 1920-21, 📸 by @tiltoncreative

oh my god

bugs bunny from looney tunes is sitting in a hole . Alt: bugs bunny from looney tunes holding up a silly isn’t he sign

lol I just got three TripIt notifications that DHS has reversed the global entry pre-check nonsense.

It’s so common to come across the assertion that books were luxury objects exclusively for the elite in the Middle Ages that I want to guest curate a massive exhibition called “Meh-nuscripts: Books for the Many,” which features just workaday or unremarkable objects.

Well. This should be fun today as I try to get home. At the very least, I’m not trying to get to VA home, thus combining political and weather fuckery

People do in fact remember that they kept TSA Pre and Global Entry running during the last shutdown

The greatest risk of AI in higher education isn't cheating—it's the erosion of learning itself Public debate about artificial intelligence in higher education has largely orbited a familiar worry: cheating. Will students use chatbots to write essays? Can instructors tell? Should universities ba...

Short circuiting the learning process is the whole point of #AI. Users offload the "simple" or "mundane" thinking that nurtures growth. Students borrow its "understanding" and think that understanding is thiers.

Use at the risk of stupidity.

#academicsky

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