Le Café de L’Enfer was a Hell-themed café in Paris’ red light district.
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Karelian poem singing brothers Poavila and Triihvo Jamanen reciting traditional Finnish folk poetry, Russia, 1894.
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“Dyeing in Scarlet.
Take the wool and mordant with woad, which dyes blue. Wash and dry it. Then take and crush kermes in water until it becomes dissolved. Then mix in rustic archil and boil thus. Put the wool in and it will become scarlet”
— The Stockholm Papyri, one of the oldest of the known Alchemical manuscripts. (via kainsoph)
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