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Category: Fashion & design

By The Generalist Posted on May 1, 2022April 30, 2022

Indian flag monopoly

Every Indian flag in India is made in one small south Indian village.

Categories: 20th century history, Fashion & design, Politics & law, South Asia
By The Generalist Posted on April 17, 2022April 17, 2022

Blanket heater table

The Japanese kotatsu combines a table, a heater, and a layer of comfortable blankets.

Categories: East Asia, Fashion & design, Technology
By The Generalist Posted on January 19, 2022January 18, 2022

First piggy bank

The origins of the modern piggy bank are lost to history, but the oldest extant piggy bank comes from 12th century CE Java.

Categories: Animals, Economics & business, Fashion & design, Medieval history, Southeast Asia
By The Generalist Posted on December 6, 2021January 25, 2023

Rational dress

The Rational Dress Society, founded in 1881, fought the strictures of the Victorian corset, crinoline, and high heels.

Categories: 19th century history, Europe, Fashion & design
By The Generalist Posted on October 4, 2021January 25, 2023

Animal helmets

The Vikings may not have worn horned helmets, but the ancient Greeks had helmets covered in boar tusks and the Dayak of Borneo had helmets covered in fish or pangolin scales.

Categories: Ancient history, Animals, Europe, Fashion & design, Military, Southeast Asia
By The Generalist Posted on July 30, 2021January 25, 2023

Climate crisis knitting

How do you visualise climate change simply and evocatively? Well, you could knit it.

Categories: 21st century history, Earth science, Fashion & design
By The Generalist Posted on June 1, 2021May 31, 2021

Jean Shrimpton’s white dress

When Jean Shrimpton walked out onto Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, Australia, in 1965, she didn’t know she was about to make fashion history.

Categories: 20th century history, Fashion & design, Games & sport, Oceania
By The Generalist Posted on April 21, 2021January 25, 2023

The lost bell of Shwedagon Pagoda

A Portuguese mercenary stole the largest working bell in history from Shwedagon Pagoda, and then lost it in the waters of the Yangon River.

Categories: Early modern history, Fashion & design, Medieval history, Military, Politics & law, Religion & belief, Southeast Asia
By The Generalist Posted on April 18, 2021April 15, 2021

Kiln cones

In a kiln, a set of three drooping cones can monitor the effects of temperature on the pottery items being fired.

Categories: Arts & recreation, Fashion & design, Sciences, Technology, Weights & measures
By The Generalist Posted on March 1, 2021April 28, 2021

Vidal Sassoon, antifa

Vidal Sassoon was an icon of 20th century fashion – and also beat up fascists in post-WWII London.

Categories: 20th century history, Arts & recreation, Europe, Fashion & design, History, Military, Places, Politics & law
By The Generalist Posted on February 27, 2021January 25, 2023

Oldest carpet

A prehistoric Scythian tomb in Siberia contained the oldest surviving carpet in the world.

Categories: Arts & recreation, Fashion & design, History, North & Central Asia, Places, Prehistory
By The Generalist Posted on February 24, 2021January 25, 2023

Relic souvenirs

In early Christian tradition, the power of saints’ relics could be transferred from object to object by a simple touch.

Categories: Arts & recreation, Europe, Fashion & design, History, Medieval history, Middle East, Places, Religion & belief
By The Generalist Posted on February 11, 2021January 25, 2023

Rose engine lathe

What do the first postage stamps, Fabergé eggs, and watch backs have in common? Rose engine lathes.

Categories: Arts & recreation, Fashion & design, Sciences, Technology
By The Generalist Posted on February 2, 2021January 25, 2023

Mystery watch

The 19th century mystery watch was a genuine engineering puzzle: a pocket watch whose face was entirely transparent.

Categories: Arts & recreation, Europe, Fashion & design, Places, Sciences, Technology
By The Generalist Posted on December 11, 2020April 28, 2021

The savages of the Pacific

In 1806 the French artist Jean-Gabriel Charvet premiered one of the first multi-panel artistic wallpapers: it depicted a romanticised and colonial panorama of explorations in the South Pacific.

Categories: 19th century history, Art, Arts & recreation, Europe, Fashion & design, History, Oceania, Places
By The Generalist Posted on November 29, 2020January 25, 2023

Suffragette medals

When British suffragettes were released from prison, they got medals.

Categories: 20th century history, Arts & recreation, Europe, Fashion & design, History, Military, Places, Politics & law

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