On Monday I blogged about this portrait of Richard Croft’s children—where Herbert, aged ten, is lying in the pose of Melancholy, in the background in partial shadow, due to his having died.
The children’s father, the 6th Baronet Richard Croft,… Read More
I have a new book coming out next February with National Geographic. Here’s the cover. The subject is fashion, namely, a history of the world through the lens of what people wore, and why. It’s in the final layout phase… Read More
The agave plant has been used to make bullets, tequila, surgical thread, and heavy twines like sisal. It's also used as a sugar substitute and to poison arrows.
source: Fifty plants that Changed the Course of History