Egyptian mason’s mallets

Dier el-Medina
1539-1077 BCE

Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy

If Tommy Cooper made mosaics

Please no.

I can imagine!

a man in a suit and tie is petting a white kitten ALT: a man in a suit and tie is petting a white kitten

Life imitating art situation.

That’s a shame

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I’ll need to visit and have a look when I’m back in Cardiff!! It looks great!

The individual tiles are more noticeable in some, than others.

I’ll need to revisit my Maw & Co catalogues.

Definitely.
Which reminds me of the sustainability project here 10 years ago, to build apartments of old shipping containers. Just before starting, they were told that they needed to use new containers for liability reasons. It was still lauded as a ‘sustainable’ project 🙄

Not with enthusiasm no, they aren’t the most welcoming.

Printed houses are the emperor’s new clothes of the building industry.

It that the one from ‘Erik’, the Terry Pratchett novel?

Close enough! Haha

Hahaha

Yes, Nigeria, 1920s

A medieval drawing of two men jousting, each in a small a small boat, with two rowers

Look what they took from us.

Jousting in boats

I just asked my Italian wife and MIL and neither had ever heard of it, but both thought it an excellent idea.

Yes! Clever marketing too, as people might use the cafe, bring others with them, buy a book etc!

And it sounds nice too!

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Workers excavating for a new railway line, in Germany 1875

Just some Trad Wives...

Doing traditional wife stuff.

On a construction site.

In 1875

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Very, very, very nice.

I'd say so. It creates an awareness of the building techniques of the time. And we're having this chat now, so it worked :)

The house after its 19th century restoration

Prior to its restoration c1855

Odd, as the wattle wasn't visible after they restored it, or even before they restored it.

A collection of seven wood pottery shaping tools

And they haven't changed much in thousands of years.
By coincidence, my mrs just showed me this.

A WIFE SUES FOR DIVORCE. KINGSTON, N. Y., Sept. 19.-Emily Dunn, the daughter of a prosperous farmer of Ulster County, was married in Rosendale on Nor. 15, 1875, to Aaron A. Coutant, of Rosendale, manager of a large cement mill. In the Spring of the following year Coutant deserted his wife, to whom a child was born a few months after-ward. Coutant continued to reside in Rosendale, and on March 26, 1881 he married Jane Has-brouck. The first wife has now commenced proceedings for divorce, but Coutant alleges that he went to lowa and there procured a divorce from his first wife, and that he was therefore entitled to marry again. The New Work Times Published: September 20, 1884

Got to love the social history bits and pieces one finds, when searching for things like... cement.

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Looks like something from pirates of the Caribbean

It looks like it was riding a horse.

Impressive chimneys there!