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Iaroslava Rud is a contemporary textile designer from Ukraine who specializes in Shetland lace. Her aim is to bring the ethereal beauty of traditional designs fashionably into the modern day.

some beautiful craftwork by the excellent artist Fibacz

Oak ritual hammer, 10" long

I've got my fire cider started up, ready to sit for a few weeks! Last year in December, I got extremely sick and, to give me a hand, one of my coworkers gave me a large jar of her fire cider. It really helped, and I look forward to repaying her this year! I'm also about to finish up the spruce tip syrup I started this spring, and I'll post pictures of it when I'm done! 😁🌿 -Hrafna 🐦‍⬛

"Slava Tribal Earrings" My own design and fringe layout. Made with: Buffalo bone, Citrine, Rutilated Quartz, Walnut Wood beads from Italy, Alabaster, and Iolite.

Light the Way (2024 wood burning on large bass wood round)

Proto-Indo-European reconstruction is a dangerous business. It's very easy to draw unsound conclusions from nothing more than wild leaps and rough guesswork. There are some in the right-wing pagan community who take this way too far. You'll see such wild generalizations as "Lugh = Odin = Zeus = Shiva" etc. It's easy to see things that aren't there. For example, there's a well known Greek myth of Baucis and Philemon where two gods in disguise visit a town of wicked folk who violate the sacred custom of xenia, refusing to welcome the strangers. Only the good Baucis and Philemon take the strangers in and later only they are spared in a divine flood that wipes out the town. This is very clearly paralleled by the biblical story of Sodom and Gomorrah where YHVH sends two angels to test the wicked people of Sodom and only Lot welcomes them into his home, after which Sodom is destroyed and Lot is spared. If you were to apply the Lugh = Odin = etc. approach, you could not ask for a more clear "reconstructed" myth between the "last common ancestor" of the Greeks and Jews, leading you to a putative "Proto-Helleno-Semitic" myth, which is clearly gibberish. Proto-Indo-European reconstruction is fraught with danger and pitfalls. It should not be bandied about lightly. Seeing people proceed recklessly here, and then claim to be authoritative, is a big red flag. @folkishworldview

𝕰𝖘𝖔𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖎𝖈 𝕳𝖆𝖓𝖉𝖎𝖈𝖗𝖆𝖋𝖙 🪡⚡️ Working on all of your glorious customs! Thank y’all so much for all of the support and wonderful opportunities to do what I love. Thank you for every share, encouraging word and recommendation as well. Closed until next spring. Hoping to work on some passion projects on my winter break.