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Ele Willoughby, PhD
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Day 23 #artAdventCalendar is My hand-carved, hand-printed lino block print of the well-known, ancient Chinese folktale of the magpie bridge linking the lovers, The Weaver Girl & the Cowherd, separated by a great river, which is the Milky Way, is printed on lovely Japanese paper.

There are variations of the folktale across Asia, but the story tells of lovers, the Weaver Girl, symbolized by Vega, & the 馃У

#mastoArt #linocut #printmaking #folklore #magpieBridge #folktale #magpie #WeaverGirl

My black and white linocut the Chinese folktale of The Weaver Girl and the Cowherd, shows the Cowherd at the bottom right, reaching up towards the weeping Weaver Girl at the top left. Each stands on a stylized raining cloud. There are 6 magpies in flight, flying over raining waves of the river between them. As you look from the bottom left of the river up towards the top right the waves transform into the simple dots of the stars in the Milky Way.
My black and white linocut the Chinese folktale of The Weaver Girl and the Cowherd, shows the Cowherd at the bottom right, reaching up towards the weeping Weaver Girl at the top left. Each stands on a stylized raining cloud. There are 6 magpies in flight, flying over raining waves of the river between them. As you look from the bottom left of the river up towards the top right the waves transform into the simple dots of the stars in the Milky Way.
My black and white linocut the Chinese folktale of The Weaver Girl and the Cowherd, shows the Cowherd at the bottom right, reaching up towards the weeping Weaver Girl at the top left. Each stands on a stylized raining cloud. There are 6 magpies in flight, flying over raining waves of the river between them. As you look from the bottom left of the river up towards the top right the waves transform into the simple dots of the stars in the Milky Way.
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Ele Willoughby, PhD
@minouette@spore.social replied  路  activity timestamp yesterday

Cowherd symbolized by Altair, banished to opposite sides of a heavenly great river, symbolized by the Milky Way. Once a year, on the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, a flock of magpies make a bridge across the river to reunite the lovers.

The story is the inspiration for the Qiqiao or Qixi Festival, celebrated on the seventh day of the seventh month in China since the Han dynasty, as the Tanabata festival in Japan and the Chilseok festival in Korea.
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Ele Willoughby, PhD
@minouette@spore.social replied  路  activity timestamp yesterday

It is said that if it rains on the day of the festival it means the river has swept away the magpie bridge or that the rain is the tears of the separated couple.

I had planned a colourful image but sometimes the trick to relief printmaking is knowing when to stop. I took my 11yo son鈥檚 advice and stuck to black and white.

https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/4400152193

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