{"id":17521,"date":"2018-11-18T17:27:37","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T01:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/?p=17521"},"modified":"2018-11-18T17:27:37","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T01:27:37","slug":"cylinder-seals-ancient-and-modern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2018\/11\/18\/cylinder-seals-ancient-and-modern\/","title":{"rendered":"Cylinder seals, ancient and modern"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>I was labeling photos just now of ancient <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cylinder_seal\">cylinder seals<\/a>, and it occurred to me that cylindrical rubber stamps might be fun for modern crafting.<\/p>\r\n<p>Turns out that I was not, of course, the first person to think of that. Here are some links.<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n  <li>A couple of pages suggest using foam stickers on a cylinder, which seems like the easiest way to create such a device: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/136233957455182607\/?lp=true\">Pinterest<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/dymphnasong.com\/2014\/10\/ancient-sumeria-activity-for-kids.html\">Make Your Own Cylinder Seal: Ancient Sumeria Activity for Kids<\/a>. You can even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guildcraftinc.com\/crafts\/pc\/Cylinder-Seal-Kits-p2539.htm\">buy a kit<\/a>.<\/li>\r\n  <li>If you want to get fancier, you can <a href=\"https:\/\/crewsproject.wordpress.com\/2017\/02\/01\/how-to-make-a-cylinder-seal\/\">carve the seal in clay<\/a>.<\/li>\r\n  <li>And for a larger scale, like a wall, you can get <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisoldhouse.com\/how-to\/how-to-roll-painted-pattern-rubber-stamp\">paint rollers with patterns on them<\/a>.<\/li>\r\n  <li>That last reminded me that Mary Anne has a rolling pin with a pattern on it; turns out there are a lot of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/listing\/251879974\/sale-embossing-rolling-pins-laser\">embossing rolling pins<\/a> out there too.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17522,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17521\/revisions\/17522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}