#engraving — Public Fediverse posts

While we're talking about old multi-hyphenate guys we met in this week's episode...

I couldn't find a picture of Pieter van den Keere -- whose globe popularized the newfangled constellation, but I did find this... *interesting* (upsetting) engraving he published...

So, you're welcome, I guess. Back to #camelopardalis astrophotography tomorrow!

Listen to the pod here: https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/camelopardalis-cosmic-background/

📷 : https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/image/21470001

#astronomy #drawings #history #Historical #BritishMuseum #Art #Engraving #camelopardalis #globe #engraving

Sing

Intaglio engraving and aquatint

10 x 15 cm

2025

#art #engraving #sing

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-03/pages/plate-057-farm-girl-in-frame/

I’m not sure whether the frame here was part of Dobson’s painting, but i love it. Dobson’s paintings were known for the “innocence of the young”, a popular theme in England in the 2nd half of the 18th century.

There’s also a version with just the frame.

The scaled-down images in Mastdon look much better in Firefox than Chrome here.

#vintageArt #vintageEngraving #innocence #art #painting #engraving #fobo #WilliamCharlesThomasDobson #border #frame

GNU LilyPond 2.26.0 was released today as the first ”stable“ version since 2022.

LilyPond is a music engraving program devoted to producing the highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of traditionally engraved music to computer printouts.

Changelog: https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.26/Documentation/changes/

Download: https://lilypond.org/download.html or https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/releases/v2.26.0

I suggest installing it from within Frescobaldi, the Lilypond IDE:
https://www.frescobaldi.org/

#LilyPond #typesetting #engraving

'Les Lapins', engraved by Gustave Doré, 1868

#art #engraving #GustaveDoré #engravings #rabbits

'Marguerite's Ghost Appearing to Faust' - an early 19th Century French print. #PhantomsFriday #ghost #engraving #artsky #Goethe

Première impression depuis plus d'un an. Je suis un peu rouillée.
#engraving #print #printmaker #gravure #estampe

Première impression depuis plus d'un an. Je suis un peu rouillée.
#engraving #print #printmaker #gravure #estampe

Première impression depuis plus d'un an. Je suis un peu rouillée.
#engraving #print #printmaker #gravure #estampe

Première impression depuis plus d'un an. Je suis un peu rouillée.
#engraving #print #printmaker #gravure #estampe

Drop everything and JOIN THE FEDIVERSE! ⁂

#Fediverse #JoinTheFediverse #engraving #laser #laserCutter #laserCutting #laserEngraving

Drop everything and JOIN THE FEDIVERSE! ⁂

#Fediverse #JoinTheFediverse #engraving #laser #laserCutter #laserCutting #laserEngraving

I am engraving this SVG using WdKA’s laser cutter.

#Fediverse #JoinTheFediverse #engraving #laser #laserCutter #laserCutting #laserEngraving

I am engraving this SVG using WdKA’s laser cutter.

#Fediverse #JoinTheFediverse #engraving #laser #laserCutter #laserCutting #laserEngraving

Yesterday I was working on a tree of life design on the CO2 #laser. It's a hand-drawn line-drawing with lots of intricate detail that we're planning to make a divination board of.

This is a relatively large board, so the #engraving takes a while, so I tend to let it do it's thing while I'm in the room working on other stuff.

Then, I happen to look at it and notice it's all screwy - the lines are showing up double. Oh Nooooo...

The rest of my day was basically consumed with debugging the laser.

Ghosting or double-lines usually mean something screwy in the optical path, specifically in terms of the verticality of the laser. If the beam isn't hiting the focus lens in the center, you can end up with this problem, or if the beam is hitting the edge of the nozzle and is being reflected, you can also have this issue.

I did the 'ol mirror alignment test with the tape... nope,... everything looks dead center.

I did notice some debris in the nozzle so i cleaned that out thoroughly, it's never been cleaner - issue still persists.

Then I grabbed a mirror and a light, and pointed the light at the hole where the beam normally enters the head, and angled the mirror below the nozzle such that I could see the entire optical path - looks completely perfectly clear ... well darn...

I had to somehow rule out optical versus mechanical issues, so what I came up with was #laserengraving two crosses, one just made up of single lines, the other of filled lines. If both have double lines, the issue is likely optical. If only the filled cross has double lines, the issue is just mechanical.

Sure enough, the thin line cross came out just fine, so the issue isn't optical.

This also revealed clearly the problem only happens on the X axis.

So I proceed to clean the heck out of the x axis belt, it was fine... didn't help... tension was fine too..

Then I looked for 'wiggle' in the laser nozzle... now.. it always had some wiggle in it, so I didn't think too much of it, but it seemed worse somehow... wondered if that could be it...

I had to track down where the wiggle even came from. It's not the laser head itself, just the nozzle part.

After lots of back-breaking awkward bending and looking around with lights and mirrors, I discovered that this #monport onyx R laser has two little screws hidden BEHIND where the belt attaches, that fix the laser nozzle assembly to the rest of the larger laser head.

They are impossible to tighten without removing the belt first... ughhh....

Lots of fiddly screwing around later, I was able to tighten these little screws, and sure enough, no more wobble. It's more solid now than it ever was even since first we got the laser.

And sure enough, that fixed the problem.

Not optics, not verticality,... just two little stupid screws.

I'm guessing they were never fully tightened when it left the factory (hence the, it always had some wobble to it...) and just became increasingly loose until loose enough to become a problem. When I initially found the screws, one of them was just short of completely falling out. Go figure.

Made new signs yesterday for the #students of our #workshop for easier connection to our internal platforms (and mastodon, of course). #graphics were made with the friendly url shortener https://t1p.de/ (to reduce the grid resolution) and my favorite QR generator https://www.qrcode-monkey.com/de/

#laser #engraving coated fibreboard #becauseican

#university #muthesius #industrialdesign #art #study #onboarding #kiel

Bacchus by Hendrich Goltzius, c. 1600 (engraving)
#HendrichGoltzius #bacchus #dionysos #dionysus #engraving #art #mannerism

#lisp #music #notation #engraving #rust

Do you hate XML as much as the rest of the world? Do you have an unreasonable love for Lisp(-alikes) and DSLs?

This project allows you to create musical scores in MusicXML without typing any XML at all; similarly, you can "import" MusicXML and have that converted to Fermata Lisp:

* https://github.com/oxur/fermata

A full REPL is currently just leaving the design phase and will probably get its first commits tomorrow ...

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Cassell-MagazineOfArt-Vol6/pages/221-don-quixote-in-his-study/

Don Quixote in his study, from an article about the artist, Gustave Doré, in Vol 3 of Cassels Magazine of Art (1883).

It’s become a classic fantasy trope, mythical creatures appearing when someone reads a book, but here is is in the 19th century.

#GustaveDore #Doré #fobo #vintageArt #GIMP #GIMP3 #vintageEngraving #engraving #fantasy #dragon #DonQuixote

Portrait of Manuel Chrysoloras by Theodor Galle.

Early 1600, engraving, Belgium/Flemish.

#engraving #flemish #belgium #1600 #illustration #art #Galle #TheodoreGalle #portrait #Chrysoloras #ManuelChrisoloras #publicdomain

Today's poem:

Nuremberg
- by Kenneth Slessor

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/802360961002618880/nuremberg?source=share

#AlbrechtDürer #poetry #KennethSlessor #medieval #history #engraving #art #tranquillity #timelessness

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Rouam-MuseeArtistiqueIV/pages/134-temptation/

Attributed to François Chiffart, but i think they mean François-Nicolas Chifflart with an ‘l”.

An 1870s allegorical #etching reproduced in an #engraving of a lecherous man perhaps dreaming :-)

These messy sketch-like engravings are easy to clean up in #GIMP as you don’t have to decide whatś mess and what’s intended perfectly :-)

#fobo #vintageArt #dream #nudity #art #GIMP3 #Gimp_3 #forest #barefoot #cupid #love

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ElMundoIlustrado-1897/pages/216-big-and-little/

A somewhat gruesome scene from Tomb Thumb, illustrated by Gustave Doré, in the bedroom of the giant ogre & his wife.

The emotions of the children (who actually appear to be shrunken adults in the picture) and of the wife are especially well portrayed.

Probably an electrotype copy of the original plate, with cracks i partly fixed in #GIMP3

#fobo #GIMP #vintageArt #ogre #tomThumb #engraving #Doré #Gimp_3

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Paley-Fonts/pages/decorated-market-bosworth/

The font’s at least partly from the 13th century, not 14th as the book says; it was damaged in the 20th century when a bit fell off the tower and through the roof onto it. St. Peter’s Church, Market Bosworth, Leicestershire - the church is approx. 700 years old. The heraldic shields on the font were originally painted.

Someone needs to make a #typeface called Market Bosworth.

#vintageArt #churchArchitecture #fobo #engraving #baptism #font #notATypeface #GIMP #GIMP3

Optical diffraction patterns made with a MOPA laser engraving machine [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsGHr7dXLuI

#HackerNews #OpticalDiffraction #MOPALaser #Engraving #Video #Technology #Innovation

Some beautiful illustrations from the 1852 book Iconographic Encyclopædia of Science, Literature, and Art #encyclopedia #oldbook #oldbooks #engraving #engravings #illustration #oldillustrations #oldillustration #vintage #19thcentury #books #1800s #illustrations #heraldry #vintageillustration #bookplate #science

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Subert-Cechy-Vol2/pages/204-old-farm/

An old farm on the Vltava river, lived-in (chimney smoking).

I bought the book at Antikvariát Dlážděná in Prague very cheaply; it’s heavy and approx 16x11 inches / 40 x 28cm. Large engravings scan well: paper fibre less significant.

*Edit* Závisti is also a place-name! Not Envy. Bad Google Translate! :-) updated. Thanks, @en.osm.town

#fobo #vintageArt #vltava #engraving #farmArt #GIMP #GIMP3 #Gimp_3

« une araignée au plafond »
SAMEDI 18 OCTOBRE / 19-22h.

J’ai le plaisir de vous annoncer la nouvelle date du vernissage de mon exposition.
En compagnie de @confettimalaise ainsi que @gizmedium.
prix libre. Marseille, a CALE, 21 boulevard blanc.
Un grand merci à vous.

Merci également @brynn_wileis.

#exhibition #exposition #art #artwork #darkartists #darkart #dotwork #engraving #tattoo #marseille #france #lafolie #mentalhealth #depression #psychologie #carotide #ghost #monster #life

Sacrifice to Priapus, from the Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae manuscript, 16th century (engraving)
#classicalart #engraving #speculumromanaemagnificentiae

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-MusaeumHermeticum/pages/000-2-title-page-full-page-border-alchemy/

A border from the title page of a compilation of several books on #alchemy #hermeticism #theurgy #occult subjects from 1678 (actually there was an earlier edition too).

I asked Google Gemini to explain the symbology and it did a credible job, if not perfect: the philosopher’s stone is the search gorr personal godhead, not for gold. See the web page for what it said.

#vintageArt #border #occult #hermetic #fobo #GIMP #Gimp_3 #engraving #phoenix #witchcraft

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Smith-GothicArchitecture/pages/231-the-alcazar-at-toledo/

The Alcázar in Toledo was a palace in Roman times, made into a fortress in the 10th century. It was restored in the 16th century; Juan de Herrera designed the South Façade and the monumental staircase, and perhaps more, between 1571 and 1585. This #engraving is from before it was rebuilt after the civil war.

A great job with scale & perspective.

#vintageArt #fobo #gothicArchitecture #arches #Spain #palace #pillars #columns #blackAndWhite #GIMp #Gimp_3 #GIMP3

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Ridpath-GreatRacesOfMankind-Vol3/pages/214-chaldean-slaves/

Chaldean Slaves (1893)

We don’t really know exactly where Chaldea was, still less how they or their slaves dressed, and the text accompanying this illustration in Redpath’s book was not relevant to it. I doubt we know whether female slaves did this work of grinding wheat or other grains to make flour or meal.

But it’s an illustration of slave labour.

#vintageArt #fobo #slaveLabour #labor #slavery #women #whip #engraving #johnClarkRidpath

Niccolò Paganini on the Fiftieth Anniversary of His Death (1900)

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-14/pages/296-paganini/

I think the title means that this portrait was published on the fiftieth anniversary of Paganini’s death, although his eyes do look a little hollow so who knows?

Paganini, of course, was a famous Italian composer and violist. He was not, i think the inventor of the panini, but should have been.

#GIMP #Paganini #violinist #fobo #vintageArt #portrait #composer #musician #music #engraving #vintageEngraving

Niccolò Paganini on the Fiftieth Anniversary of His Death (1900)

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-14/pages/296-paganini/

I think the title means that this portrait was published on the fiftieth anniversary of Paganini’s death, although his eyes do look a little hollow so who knows?

Paganini, of course, was a famous Italian composer and violist. He was not, i think the inventor of the panini, but should have been.

#GIMP #Paganini #violinist #fobo #vintageArt #portrait #composer #musician #music #engraving #vintageEngraving

Niccolò Paganini on the Fiftieth Anniversary of His Death (1900)

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-14/pages/296-paganini/

I think the title means that this portrait was published on the fiftieth anniversary of Paganini’s death, although his eyes do look a little hollow so who knows?

Paganini, of course, was a famous Italian composer and violist. He was not, i think the inventor of the panini, but should have been.

#GIMP #Paganini #violinist #fobo #vintageArt #portrait #composer #musician #music #engraving #vintageEngraving

Niccolò Paganini on the Fiftieth Anniversary of His Death (1900)

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-14/pages/296-paganini/

I think the title means that this portrait was published on the fiftieth anniversary of Paganini’s death, although his eyes do look a little hollow so who knows?

Paganini, of course, was a famous Italian composer and violist. He was not, i think the inventor of the panini, but should have been.

#GIMP #Paganini #violinist #fobo #vintageArt #portrait #composer #musician #music #engraving #vintageEngraving

Niccolò Paganini on the Fiftieth Anniversary of His Death (1900)

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-14/pages/296-paganini/

I think the title means that this portrait was published on the fiftieth anniversary of Paganini’s death, although his eyes do look a little hollow so who knows?

Paganini, of course, was a famous Italian composer and violist. He was not, i think the inventor of the panini, but should have been.

#GIMP #Paganini #violinist #fobo #vintageArt #portrait #composer #musician #music #engraving #vintageEngraving

A picture from the same 1856 American children’s book features some animals having a court case. Lots of puns with “bar’ in them, i think as an old word for bark.

https://fromoldbooks.org/r/2o/pages/092-counsel-anthro-dog/

Scan cleaned up with the GNU Image Manipulation Program as always.

#dogs #dog #anthro #detective #lawyer #shady #peterPaerley #fobo #engraving #vintageArt #art #GIMP #Gimp_3

Si tenéis partituras Urtext de Henle Verlag anteriores a 1999, tened presente que cada nota, cada plica, cada adorno fueron grabados A MANO:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvyoKdW-Big

#engraving #musicnotation #partituras #grabado

Si tenéis partituras Urtext de Henle Verlag anteriores a 1999, tened presente que cada nota, cada plica, cada adorno fueron grabados A MANO:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvyoKdW-Big

#engraving #musicnotation #partituras #grabado

Si tenéis partituras Urtext de Henle Verlag anteriores a 1999, tened presente que cada nota, cada plica, cada adorno fueron grabados A MANO:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvyoKdW-Big

#engraving #musicnotation #partituras #grabado

Si tenéis partituras Urtext de Henle Verlag anteriores a 1999, tened presente que cada nota, cada plica, cada adorno fueron grabados A MANO:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvyoKdW-Big

#engraving #musicnotation #partituras #grabado

Things that irritate me - take a look at the bars of rest for the Trio (this is from an arrangement of The Klaxon). Notice anything? No? All the 8's are upside down. #music #scoring #engraving #petpeeve

HERBACUARIUM PELUDUS
Aguafuerte & Aguatinta
Bichito inspirado en las mostrorratas de Bone

#art #aquatint #etching #ratcreatures #bone #mostrorrata #illustration #engraving #fantasy #tempvsfrangit #cantabria #mastoart #grabado #fediart

Chayote.
Polystyrogravure (gravure sur polystyrène extrudé).
3 couleurs à plaque perdue.
43 x 61 cm.
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Chayote.
Engraving on extruded polystyrene.
3 colors (lost plate engraving).
43 x 61 cm.

#polystyrogravure #gravure #engraving #print #printmaking #polystyreneextrude #styrodur #fritzbol #parlonsgravure #polystyrene #chayote #chayotte #christophine #printisnotdead

Gorton font: Marcin Wichary's loveletter to a workmanlike font
https://aresluna.org/the-hardest-working-font-in-manhattan/
#singlestroke #typography #engraving #design #gorton #fonts #+

Nouvelles linogravures 'Mum and Son' en préparation...stay tuned!

#linocut #linogravure #linogravures #linocutart #atelierdartiste #engraving #blom #gravure #art #blóm #illustration #loislow

Une première xylogravure. Test 1.
L'envie d'en faire d'autres et d'acquérir de nouveaux outils pour gagner en précision. Ce qui est un peu paradoxal quand on utilise cette technique.
Mais après avoir exploré la lino, l'eau-forte, la pointe sèche et le burin, je crois que j'ai trouvé une technique qui me convient.

#xylogravure #woodcut #engraving #estampecontemporaine #gravuresurbois #méandes #profondeur #blackandwhite #artcontemporain

Desecration!

Rušení posvŕtných hájů lípových, or, Disruption of sacred linden groves.

It seems a bunch of yobbos have invaded a sacred ritual held in a clearing in a forest.

The treatment of light and shade is exquisite in this 1884 engraving, published in a book “Bohemia: oint work of Czech writers and artists”, by František Adolf Šubert, lead, and František Adolf Borovský, co-editor.

#pagan #ritualMagic #druids #fromOldBooks #engraving #vintageArt

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Subert-Cechy-Vol2/pages/056-spirit-battle/

The Large Floral Mandala Gate DXF GA0034 design can be used to cut on laser cutting machines, fiber lasers, water jets, or even plasma machines to make the best metal gates

https://www.designifier.com/product/large-floral-mandala-gate-dxf-ga0034/

#Designifier #lasercut #lasercutting #laser #laserengraving #handmade #acrylic #cnc #engraving #laserengraved #woodworking #lasercutter #laserengrave #lasercutwood #crafting #woodcraft #diecut #woodshop #woodsigns #cncrouter