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It’s gorgeous. We were there on Friday!Beautiful Patchwork Horse and absolutely perfect with that lovely jacket @Croisette7!
These are wonderful (as was the story!) @FizzyWater -- I have my eye on that Hemispharium...and sisters on the Feux du Ciel, which I adore. I lost my quote on your Glitch but always love seeing that rare design!
This is so beautiful on you and looks amazing with your plaid shirt @Nomad! Perfect for a winter-y day...
A beautiful Flaneries @Agrume!
The perfect scarf for a wonderful date narrative @Redbirdhermes!
You are so good at tying CSGMs in unexpected ways @Snausages! And clever with the ex-ray theme on this. That is my favorite cw of the 90 in this design...
Congratulations on the performance review and the new scarf @violetkool!
You found a theme-appropriate twilly for sure @LaurenHermesLover-- very cute.
Love these! Especially your two Monet Lugo's -- old and new-- lovely to see them side-by side as it were. And thank you-- it was fun to figure out a theme connection for Tohu Bohu @Living.la.vida.fifi!
Thank you @Jereni!
All three are lovely but you look adorable in your on-theme bandana @Mary Ann G!
It is gorgeous with that deep blue sky and fab hem @MabelJo-- can never see enough. I may puill out mine this week too, twin!
Fantastic examples of scarves that feature taxonomies/classifications @HermesEchidna! Beautiful SOTD as well.
Wow! Fantastic pattern-mixing @violetool!
Your happy, joyous mod shots always add a smile to my morning coffee @GloWW0rM -- but I can't express it better than @textilegirl already has! This pink CU shawl is so playful and wonderful and clearly suit you perfectly.
What a beautiful Flaçons, @Croisette7! Congratulations on finding this lovely serene cw...
What a find @lanit! So very beautiful. Though I would be terrified of losing the beads wearing it!
Thank you @Karenska-- yes, that would be us-- aspiring Hermesologists, right?
Lovely and perfect for a museum visit! I am glad you enjoyed the Sargent and had a chance to see it. My sister was also there on Friday of the final weekend. Loved it just as much. Your bottom photo os one of my cws @Karenska!
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What stunning colors, Croisette. Wow!
A lovely cw for you, Nomad.It’s snowing and that means I dress rough, too rough for scarves.
Archive of Les Ailes.
A Personal stem related scarf. The father of my children has a stem career. During our courting phase in college, he would invite me to go out, at night, and hunt for bugs of all kinds, including moths. He would have to collect and study them. So I can either wear this scarf and think of our hunting death days![]()
Orrrr the much more acceptable thoughts of this being for science!
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Thank you, SilkCouture!Love how your Flacons looks with your outfit!!
Perfect with your brooch, Karenska!Good day, dear Scarfies. I have been off the thread for personal reasons so I am a good deal behind. I don’t know I can catch up but I will try! As many here did, I saw the “Fashioned by Sargent” exhibit on its final weekend last week and it did not disappoint. It was spectacular. It was also warm, both inside the packed museum and outside. So I did not wear a CS as I had planned. Instead I donned my blue Aran knit sweater and a silk and was fine on our mile-long walk from our hotel to the MFA. I am so glad I had no CS to worry about in the heat and crowds.
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Objets de Curiosites is not only a meta scarf, it is also geometrically arranged. I felt very festive in the museum wearing it, and as I am only posting it now, I am on theme.
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Thank you so much!What stunning colors, Croisette. Wow!
Thank you so kindly, LKB ... your knot is very pretty, as usual!Beautiful Patchwork Horse and absolutely perfect with that lovely jacket @Croisette7!
These are wonderful (as was the story!) @FizzyWater -- I have my eye on that Hemispharium...and sisters on the Feux du Ciel, which I adore. I lost my quote on your Glitch but always love seeing that rare design!
This is so beautiful on you and looks amazing with your plaid shirt @Nomad! Perfect for a winter-y day...
A beautiful Flaneries @Agrume!
The perfect scarf for a wonderful date narrative @Redbirdhermes!
You are so good at tying CSGMs in unexpected ways @Snausages! And clever with the ex-ray theme on this. That is my favorite cw of the 90 in this design...
Congratulations on the performance review and the new scarf @violetkool!
You found a theme-appropriate twilly for sure @LaurenHermesLover-- very cute.
Love these! Especially your two Monet Lugo's -- old and new-- lovely to see them side-by side as it were. And thank you-- it was fun to figure out a theme connection for Tohu Bohu @Living.la.vida.fifi!
Thank you @Jereni!
All three are lovely but you look adorable in your on-theme bandana @Mary Ann G!
It is gorgeous with that deep blue sky and fab hem @MabelJo-- can never see enough. I may puill out mine this week too, twin!
Fantastic examples of scarves that feature taxonomies/classifications @HermesEchidna! Beautiful SOTD as well.
Wow! Fantastic pattern-mixing @violetool!
Your happy, joyous mod shots always add a smile to my morning coffee @GloWW0rM -- but I can't express it better than @textilegirl already has! This pink CU shawl is so playful and wonderful and clearly suit you perfectly.
What a beautiful Flaçons, @Croisette7! Congratulations on finding this lovely serene cw...
What a find @lanit! So very beautiful. Though I would be terrified of losing the beads wearing it!
Thank you @Karenska-- yes, that would be us-- aspiring Hermesologists, right?
Lovely and perfect for a museum visit! I am glad you enjoyed the Sargent and had a chance to see it. My sister was also there on Friday of the final weekend. Loved it just as much. Your bottom photo os one of my cws @Karenska!
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Lovely with that cameo, LolaWhisp!Today’s STEM inspired scarf: the Index Palmarum cashmere with an antique cameo pin subbing for my scarf ring. The story behind the scarf: This naturalistic scarf by Katie Scott was inspired by the pages and botanical plates of the Historia Naturalis Palmarum, a 19th century treatise on palms by the German botanist, ethnographer and explorer Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.
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I love this post - and ALL of the scarfs 🤩@HermesEchidna, I love, love your thorough, detailed, insightful, and enriching introductions on this week's theme. I thought I would have nothing to contribute as technology and mathematics are foreign to me, but today's sub-theme, natural history and biodiversity, are at the very center of my professional and personal life. I also very much enjoyed @EtsyBoss's display of primates on scarves (congratulations on your research and I bet we have a few acquaintances in common!).
Presenting yesterday's special (as in special edition!) scarf mail and my SOTD, illustrating the rich biodiversity of Singapore. I also have the blue one which I thought would be a forever placeholder because I never imagined getting my hand on the SE (now need to rehome because of the "no multiples" rule). This appeared at the Singapore branch of a French auction house over the holidays, a "buy-now" (below current retail price!!!) item, which sounded like "buy immediately" to me! So happy!
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I do not have that many biodiversity scarves and I was trying to figure out why this morning. I think it is because I also opt for a more poetic, whimsical style, rather than an illustrative one. More Shirley than Dallet, more Pythéas than Shackleton (but I'd gladly accept both, thank you very much!). Below are my Bengal tiger, South African proteas, and various birds. Jeff Fisher also published a book on birds, with scientific names and historyView attachment 5932647View attachment 5932658
What a grand and glorious introduction, HE, I look forward to participating and seeing everyone’s beauties!Good morning Scarflandia!
Thank You to @bunnycat for hosting the ‘chaos week’ of funny and happy scarves and to all of you for sharing your lovely scarves. It is an uplifting way to begin the new year!
This is my first time hosting a theme, so please bear with me and forgive any ommissions or mistakes of tpr functionality and content. Also I do this on my phone, so spelling mistakes and auto”correct” might occur. Also I tend to write too long…
One of the ‘excuses’/reasons I give myself for indulging in collecting scarves is the potential relevance and meaning of their motives. Having worked and studied cross-dicipline of natural science and history my entire Life, especially scarves with such mixed content intrigues me, and I hope you will join me in exploring that this week.
Finding narratives or traces of STEM - science, technology, engenering and mathematics - in Hermes scarves is easy, especially if the subject it widened to it’s full extent - the entire range of Scientific fields and the historic development of human Endeavour to understand and shape the world.
I will try to present a bouquet of examples this week with a new angle each day, but as my collection does definetely not hold all the great manifestations of stem scarves which exist I look so much forward to see and enjoy all your contribution.
And please, please remember that all sotds are welcome - in Scarflandia everything is on topic because scarves IS the topic. Themes are just the sprinkle on the icing.
I want to begin the week with an assortment of examples. And I start in the now of modern tech, with the computer game inspired Super Silk Quest by Elias Kofouros.
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Other designs inspired by digital tech and computers is The Game by the same designer , and we also find some bears (or Apes?) with a gameboy on Nothing but a Dreamer by Mayliss Vigouroux.
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Another direct use of tech equipment in scarves is the x-ray image of Please Check in, by Dimitri Rybaltchenko And there are several other designs related to photo and film technology like Photo Fisnish and Sequences. Please let us see these, and other examples!
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Nothing but a Dreamer also feature whales. Whales were hunted to near extinction in the 16-19th centuries for their blubber and oil to be used for especially fuel for lamps. The Discovery of how to use gas and electricity instead fortunately relieved the stress on whales, but changed a lot more! No doubt the electric and digital revolution has altered our lifes and the State of the Planet in general to extent we do probably not yet understand. But it has also literally enlightened us. Let me see scarves of lightbulbs, neon, lampposts, sparks and beams - all the modern Electric stuff, while I myself stay Old School with more whales and some Lanterns.
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Some Dallet Whales
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Katie Scott: Lanternes, Ballons, et Cocardes
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Preparing for the week, I did not have much luck in finding good examples of maths in my own collection - expect for the eternal counting of scarves, and ignoring the costs- but I know they must be there so please also give us some of your creative examples of Math as well to fire up the week.
My only slightly mathematical scarf is Les Douze Leopards (also know as the Double Leopardy - so in fact there are 2 x 12 = 24 leopards) - which even feature an abacus for us to check our calculations on!
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Les Douze Leopards (Jin Kwon)
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Wish you all a great Day - The Stem story continues tomorrow !
These are all gorgeous @Mary Ann G and what a lovely orange hem on the bandana!Another colorway of Per Astra Ad Astra to add:
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And another (less color-accurate!) colorway of Au Coeur de La Vie:
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And to add my contribution to this week, with today’s SOTD, All Aboard! Steam engines are of course ‘science and stuff,’ but as a bonus the train driver is known as the “engineer!!!” (Might explain my confusion when Dad told me, “you should be an engineer.”)
Not sure who the designer on this scarf was, but clearly either (a) not familiar with how steam engines work, or (b) hates presents, because the fireman is clearly shoveling presents (from the tender - yep, that’s what it’s called!) into the engine to keep her fueled. Yikes!!!! 😬
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Happy STEM week, fellow nerds!! 💕
@MabelJo Love the gradient between the pink and yellowDropping in for a quick post today, will catch up with comments tomorrow. My SOTD is one that's already been shown but it's so lovely I hope you don't mind me showing it again.Space Derby:
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Good morning!
The basis of natural history is classification and taxonomy. A system of ordering, making and understanding the world around us, and how everything is related.
Early classical, medieval and renaissance scolars made their own systems to classify and order their world, and depicted them in bestiariums and exhibited them in Cabinet of curiosities.
Virginie Jamin: Della Cavalleria Favolosa - designed as a mix of bestiarium and horse riding manual
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Rosa Maria Unda Souki: Objects de Curiosite
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Swedish naturalist Carl Linné - or Linnaeus - introduced a system of ordering Life on Earth in the 18th century. He created a system of families and species and nomenclature for all plants and animals known to him. Every single species got its own name, consisting of a genus’ name and a species name -
like Homo sapiens (this picture is from the web)
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Giraffa camelopardalis
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Or Meleagris gallopavo
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This naming required systematics, and not least the collecting, of specimens for decription, classification and creating order in the understanding of the world. Linné’s world was based on a religious understanding of creation and hiearachi of Nature. A Dawinian concept of nature based on evolution and gradual change during huge timespans, did not exist for another 100 years, but Linné’s naming system worked just as well in that Scientific paradigm, and continue to be the basis for natural history and the study of living nature.
There are so many scarves with abundance of nature, and also a few with taxonomic Logic in them. We have collections of butterflies, other insects, funghi and birds. And also botanical scarves directly referencing classification like Index Palmarium and Bromeliaceae and individual flower species.
Katie Scott: Index Bromeliaceae
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Farandole (Caty Latham), Champignons (Gavarni & de la Perriere), Insectes (Hugo Grygkar)
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And L’Intrus by Antoine de Jaquelot even have all the bird’s names on it.
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Other scarves show us the botanical gardens and greenhouses where botanists both before and after Linné collected and studied plants from all over the world.
Jardin d’hiver (Annie Faivre)
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Jardin de Leïla (Francois Houtin)
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And it was from breeding humble pea plants in his cloister garden that Gregor Mendel in the late 19th century discovered genetic inheritance, which gave support and renewed understanding of the mechanisms of evolution. Do we have any designs out there with peas or even DNA helixes on them?
And of course there are also designs with entire biotopes from equator to coral reels, deserts to jungles. Let us bring out the natural history and biodiversity of Our scarves!
wish you all a Day of Diversity!!
@HermesEchidna you are the perfect Scarf Mistress for this week!Ooops. I forgot my sotd
Island biotope on Annie Faivre: Ile Deserte.
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Have a great Day.
@violetkool the geologists are sure to take note and admire!Quick snap on the train for SOTD - La Vallee de Cristal worn with Chaine d'Ancre scarf ring. I realise now it's not the best combination with the top, but so be it.
This evening I'm attending a tunnelling lecture we're hosting at work, so the crystal cave is right on theme and I hope will gain me some kudos with the geologists in the room.
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@GloWW0rM the brights in this are gorgeous on you!Cosmographia Universalis is my SOTD. It features a number of engineering feats including a very elaborate wall with many bridges showcasing structural mechanics as well as the amazing geometry that is used to design pyramids.
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@Croisette7 congrats on the new-in and love the little CdA peeking out - it ties everything together (no pun intended)
@lanit what a great find - and an exceptional no less!Another unexpected grail mousseline fell onto my shoulders when surfing for another design this one popped up on my radar. One of the few times that eBay’s algorithms worked! En fil H etoile was advertised in 2010. Who would have guessed I would find a new never worn with new tags intact and with crystal beads sewn on?
I find the geometric linear detailing a work of precise engineering and speaks to the architectural modernist soul in me
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Good day, dear Scarfies. I have been off the thread for personal reasons so I am a good deal behind. I don’t know I can catch up but I will try! As many here did, I saw the “Fashioned by Sargent” exhibit on its final weekend last week and it did not disappoint. It was spectacular. It was also warm, both inside the packed museum and outside. So I did not wear a CS as I had planned. Instead I donned my blue Aran knit sweater and a silk and was fine on our mile-long walk from our hotel to the MFA. I am so glad I had no CS to worry about in the heat and crowds.
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Objets de Curiosites is not only a meta scarf, it is also geometrically arranged. I felt very festive in the museum wearing it, and as I am only posting it now, I am on theme.
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@Karenska and @LKBNOLA your OdCs are just delightful! I watched the CoC anthology series on Netflix because of this scarf (and highly recommend both the scarf and the show)Beautiful Patchwork Horse and absolutely perfect with that lovely jacket @Croisette7!
These are wonderful (as was the story!) @FizzyWater -- I have my eye on that Hemispharium...and sisters on the Feux du Ciel, which I adore. I lost my quote on your Glitch but always love seeing that rare design!
This is so beautiful on you and looks amazing with your plaid shirt @Nomad! Perfect for a winter-y day...
A beautiful Flaneries @Agrume!
The perfect scarf for a wonderful date narrative @Redbirdhermes!
You are so good at tying CSGMs in unexpected ways @Snausages! And clever with the ex-ray theme on this. That is my favorite cw of the 90 in this design...
Congratulations on the performance review and the new scarf @violetkool!
You found a theme-appropriate twilly for sure @LaurenHermesLover-- very cute.
Love these! Especially your two Monet Lugo's -- old and new-- lovely to see them side-by side as it were. And thank you-- it was fun to figure out a theme connection for Tohu Bohu @Living.la.vida.fifi!
Thank you @Jereni!
All three are lovely but you look adorable in your on-theme bandana @Mary Ann G!
It is gorgeous with that deep blue sky and fab hem @MabelJo-- can never see enough. I may puill out mine this week too, twin!
Fantastic examples of scarves that feature taxonomies/classifications @HermesEchidna! Beautiful SOTD as well.
Wow! Fantastic pattern-mixing @violetool!
Your happy, joyous mod shots always add a smile to my morning coffee @GloWW0rM -- but I can't express it better than @textilegirl already has! This pink CU shawl is so playful and wonderful and clearly suit you perfectly.
What a beautiful Flaçons, @Croisette7! Congratulations on finding this lovely serene cw...
What a find @lanit! So very beautiful. Though I would be terrified of losing the beads wearing it!
Thank you @Karenska-- yes, that would be us-- aspiring Hermesologists, right?
Lovely and perfect for a museum visit! I am glad you enjoyed the Sargent and had a chance to see it. My sister was also there on Friday of the final weekend. Loved it just as much. Your bottom photo os one of my cws @Karenska!
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@LolaWhisp that hem pulls the scarf right into the top so perfectly!Today’s STEM inspired scarf: the Index Palmarum cashmere with an antique cameo pin subbing for my scarf ring. The story behind the scarf: This naturalistic scarf by Katie Scott was inspired by the pages and botanical plates of the Historia Naturalis Palmarum, a 19th century treatise on palms by the German botanist, ethnographer and explorer Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.
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@FA73 all are wonderful and you know I adore your Alice Shirleys@HermesEchidna, I love, love your thorough, detailed, insightful, and enriching introductions on this week's theme. I thought I would have nothing to contribute as technology, engineering, and mathematics are foreign to me, but today's sub-theme, natural history, taxonomy, and biodiversity, are at the very center of my professional and personal life. I also very much enjoyed @EtsyBoss's display of primates on scarves (congratulations on your research and I bet we have a few acquaintances in common!).
Presenting yesterday's special (as in special edition!) scarf mail and my SOTD, a biological inventory of Singapore. I also have the blue one which I thought would be a forever placeholder because I never imagined getting my hand on the SE (now need to rehome because of the "no multiples" rule). This appeared at the Singapore branch of a French auction house over the holidays, a "buy-now" (below current retail price!!!) item, which sounded like "buy immediately" to me! So happy!
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I do not have that many biodiversity scarves and I was trying to figure out why this morning. I think it is because I also opt for a more poetic, whimsical style, rather than a classic illustrative one. More Shirley than Dallet, more Pythéas than Shackleton (but I'd gladly accept both, thank you very much!). Below are my Bengal tiger, South African proteas, and various birds. I am sure we can identify the species by going through Jeff Fisher's book on birds, with scientific names and history.View attachment 5932647View attachment 5932658
@scarf1 the pinks are delightful and this ties so nicely!I have always loved maps. A year ago i found this mousseline with fractured maps,
Le Monde east vaste. This is an archive pic from the summer.
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This is a wonderful little gav. Love the purple on you!
You’re so stylish in every way @Croisette7. You look incredible.
I love this design. I love this cw!Thanks for a wonderful week of fun @bunnycat ! @HermesEchidna great intro and my “gears” are already turning to come up with scarves on theme. No pun intended!
This is an old pic but I plan to wear this shawl this week. Architect Nigel Peake’s geometric offering - Patchwork Horse.
So bold and beautiful.Here's my contribution for science week, Botanica Grafica:
"Arumfel, Centummorbia, Eupatorium, Loc Sumutri, Spatula fœtida, Zurumbeth… The most scholarly might perhaps recognize these species, listed in the index of The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes, the 16th century botanical manual used by Gianpaolo Pagni as a backdrop for his new variety of herbarium. Layer after layer, as if planting seeds, he superimposed botanical plates and his stamped designs, the fruit of a graphic language to which only he holds the key. A flower blossomed, then another, until there were twelve in every color!"
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Very happy colours. I need to find this design to see what it looks like flat.Hi all! And a very Happy SOTD New Year!
I am the very proud mother of a STEM excelling son. Me myself? SO not STEM. More Renaissance, with both an English and a Science degree.
But anyway, I got this great shawl a couple of years ago to celebrate son’s success in computer science and robotics. Though that’s turned to AI now but WHATeverrrrrrr….
I give you Mr. Farrier:
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Wooooah, this is a showstopper. I love it especially with the teal top. Congratulations. You’re on a roll!My other scarfmail last week was Tresors d’Un Artiste… this was a scarf I added to my list early but then decided I wasn’t sure about the color. I totally bought it on a whim the other week when I saw it on Fashionphile for under retail in brand new condition, with no analysis of what I would wear it with.
I was somewhat prepared to hate it by the time it got here, esp since in the meantime I found the red d’Orphee but…
holy delectable deliciousness Batman!!!
It’s sooooo amazing?!
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I am gonna say this is more or less theme adjacent. It’s about the tools of an artist as opposed to a scientist or engineer, but they need a toolbox for their work too, and I imagine an ingenious STEM engineer could craft something clever with what the artist has here.