Veterok

Artisan bookbinder, painter, traveler, recycler. Most often dreams of water in unusual places. Tea-time, fixing things, learning, growing vegetables, being an idle fellow.

I like all things earthy and organic, and I dream of train travels across the Europe, worm-fishing at the summer cottage, hiking and camping trips in Dartmoor or the South Downs Way, visiting unlikely places and experiencing new things, knitting woollen tweed pullovers, walking in the frosty fields in early November, learning carpentry, going to cinema alone, writing long letters, reading books and burning incense in the evenings.

Downton Abbey, In Treatment, Lark Rise to Candleford, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, documentaries. All kinds of films

Osamu Dazai: Tsugaru | Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights | Ted Hughes: Hawk in the Rain | Annie Proulx: The Shipping News | works of Kazuya Minekura

• Inks, brushes, paints, fineliners..
• Mixtapes and CDs
• Tea
• Dark chocolate
• Vintage poetry books
• Linen thread, jute thread
• Fossils, gemstones, glass and metal beads
• Everything sea and seafaring related, esp. historical / old-fashioned
• I would love to have mourning stationary!
• Other heavy-duty sort of old-fashioned stationary is welcome too.
• Original art or crafts by you, handdrawn ATCs
• Handmade or handmade style papers/scraps
• Leather scraps, especially naturally tanned
• 35mm or 120 photographic film. Unused, or processed negatives.
• Old photographs. Gentlemen, horses, ships, trains, cars, landscapes, unusual, oriental or exotic
• Old religious and esotheric ephemera, oddities
• Incense (such as frangipani, nag champa, amber, myrrh, coconut, rosewood)
• Aromatherapeutic oils (for example bergamot, camphor, neroli, petitgrain, vetiver, ylang ylang, and the ones above)
• Lomonosov cups and saucers in following patterns: Quatro, Golden Garden, Russian Domes, Blue Bells. Broken ones too. I can trade with you!
• Folding paper or fabric fans, historical ones or ones with scenery / art reproductions are neat but everything's quite fine. I need these!
• Gentlemen's clothing items: Vests, neckties, bow ties, spats, braces, gloves, spectacles.. Second hand or new, I don't mind
• Everything useful like mittens, scarves, woollen socks, knitting needles, wool yarn, candles, soaps, matchsticks in strange boxes.

I always prefer handmade and organic/ethical products, I love things that have some soul and integrity. I like practical items more than items that are merely decorative - unless they're your original art or curious vintage/antique, which I of course love. Recycled and found objects are always interesting, and I'd be more than happy to receive ephemera and trinkets from your "personal archives" too. I make mixed media pieces in which I use all sorts of curious materials.

• I don't necessarily like plastic dollar store items.. Except weird/puffy stickers, for example glittery aircrafts. Got to love them!

• No cutesy, cartoon, Disney things for me

• I don't wear makeup or do girl-things. I do occasionally use blue lipstick though, and I fancy other strange colours too.

• Just because I'm "international" doesn't mean that you have the right to send me only a small card or some paper stuff if the swap is an item/craft swap. I always try my best to send interesting things even if it means I have to spend a couple of dollars more in the post office.

• Touristy postcards, unless it's a touristy postcard swap!

• Really strong, artificial, soapy scents

I'm around size 34 (XS/S) and of lanky build. My height is 146cm and my shoe size is EU 38.

I'm partial to anything Toshiro Mifune related. My favourite film is Stalker (by Andrei Tarkovsky). I love everything WWI related. Steam trains, heavy horses, old engines etc. make me cry because I'm an old-fashioned emotional fool. My favourite colours are natural, earthy tones; Browns, blues, rusty oranges, bronze, oxidised copper, grayish purple, mustard, moss green, natural white and gray. I love loose leaf teas.

Painters that make me all funny and mellow inside include Hugo Simberg, Akseli Gallen-Kallela and all sorts of Russian revivalists/symbolists such as Vasnetsov, Savrasov, Nesterov, Levitan, Roerich and last, but certainly not the least, Mikhail Vrubel. Yeah, I'm probably pretty deep in this...

I don't wanna vote for your government / I just wanna be your tugboat captain

• A Warm cup of Winter Solstice flaked by Abi Dryburgh aka StarlightMonkey
• Chunky Poetry Book Swap flaked by Jewels Sadler aka SweetJewels1985
• Surprise Mix Swap #1 flaked by Amanda Masterson aka Dramagymnast4eva
• Draw, sketch or paint. Handmade postcard flaked? by Laura Wilson aka laurahudd

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