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Dr Ella Hawkins
@EllaMcHawk
Design, Shakespeare, biscuit art. Teaching Fellow in Early Modern English @EDACS_UoB. Book: Shakespeare in Elizabethan Costume (@Ardenpublisher, 2022). She/her.
Jul 1, 2023 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
It’s the @BritishLibrary’s 50th birthday!

This biscuit (cookie) set is inspired by the British Library’s wonderful collections. Each biscuit depicts an item from one of their six core collection areas: stamps, newspapers, manuscripts, printed materials, maps, and sounds. 🍪 A set of 7 biscuits arranged in a square. In the top left is a biscuit version of the 1918 ‘inverted Jenny’ stamp. The royal icing has a scalloped edge, and the words ‘U.S. POSTAGE … 24 CENTS’ frame a navy-blue, upside-down image of a biplane. The top-right biscuit reads ‘The Lady’s Newspaper’ in ornate black lettering above a cameo of Queen Victoria. Below that is a biscuit depicting the title page of ‘The Tempest’ from Shakespeare’s First Folio. The bottom-right biscuit is inspired by a wax cylinder label: it reads ‘Genuine Edison Bell Gold Moulded Record’ in a vintage typeface. To the le... Biscuits flavoured with Earl Grey and Yorkshire Lavender (because research is fuelled by tea). All designs painted by hand using food colouring gels, edible lustres, and vodka.

Find out more about the history of the collection items featured in this set: blogs.bl.uk/living-knowled…
Jul 16, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
I'm an exhibit! 🍪

From now until Monday, I'll be at @CrawfordArtGall making a biscuit set inspired by their new exhibition, 'Meat & Potatoes'.

Stay tuned for photos, and come and say hello if you're in Cork! Image I had a wonderful time working at @CrawfordArtGall this weekend!

Here are some of the works in their 'Meat & Potatoes' exhibition, biscuified...

Left: 'Eggs in a Basket' (c.1959), by Anne Yeats
Right: 'The Breadline 1916' (c.1950), by Muriel Brandt

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A hand holds up a rectangular biscuit that is painted to look like the painting in the background of the photo. Both the biscuit and the framed painting feature a stylised bowl of eggs. The bowl is teal-blue with a patchy red outline. The eggs are white. Bold blue-and-white swirls in the bottom half of the biscuit looks like woodgrain. The upper half of the biscuit and the framed painting have a patchy blue and red texture.
In the foreground is a biscuit painted with a detailed crowd scene. There is a child wrapped in a green blanket, holding a baby. A group of nuns in blue gowns and white aprons surround a large basket of bread. Women wearing hats and coats queue into the distance. Buildings are visible behind them. In the background of the photograph is the framed painting on which the biscuit is based. It is blurred slightly, with the biscuit in focus.
Jun 16, 2022 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
Today’s the day! My book, Shakespeare in Elizabethan Costume, is officially published!

Here are some of the costumes, portraits & places featured in the book, presented to you in biscuit (cookie) form. 🍪

Read on for a whistle-stop, biscuit-tastic tour of each chapter. 🧵 (1/8) 24 intricately decorated biscuits (cookies) arranged into a Hand-woven velvet. Gold metal lace. Knitted hose.

Chapter 1 is about ‘original practices’ costuming at @The_Globe.

Why did actors wear ‘authentic’ Elizabethan underwear in 1997, and why bother reviving historical tailoring techniques?

Big questions; intriguing answers. (2/8) Four biscuits grouped together into a square. The biscuit on
May 29, 2022 • 12 tweets • 7 min read
Today is National Biscuit Day!

To celebrate, here is a brief and partial history of design in England – in biscuit form. 🍪

We begin in Londinium around the turn of the 3rd century AD. These tasty tesserae recreate a mosaic that may have decorated a fancy Roman ‘motel’. (1/12) A square biscuit decorated with tiny squares of royal icing, We now travel north and fast-forward 4 centuries to 650-675 AD.

This biscuit set is inspired by gold & garnet fittings in the Staffordshire Hoard. The original items may have decorated saddles, harnesses, or bibles. These chocolate replicas go very well with a cup of tea. (2/12) Four rectangular biscuits decorated to look like gold and ga
Dec 29, 2021 • 13 tweets • 7 min read
2021: a biscuit (cookie) retrospective. 🍪

Thys 🧵 beginneth wyth these illuminated manuscript morsels. All painted by hand and flavoured with orange, cardamom & vanilla. (1/?) 9 square biscuits decorated with illustrations from medieval Next up are these Ancient Greek biscuit sherds, inspired by items in the collections of @AshmoleanMuseum.

I painted the designs onto royal icing by hand, then went wild with the Biscuit Ageing Process™ (lots of scratches, faux chips/cracks, and edible dirt). (2/?) A collection of 3D biscuits/cookies made to look like Ancien
Nov 29, 2021 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
Not a collection of mudlarking finds from the foreshore of the Thames. Biscuits. 🍪 Biscuit flavour: sea salt & brown sugar. Everything made by hand using painting, piping, glazing, and sgraffito techniques. The pins & beads are royal icing.

Inspired by the wonderful finds of Tom Chivers (@thisisyogic, thisisyogic.com), @flo_finds, and Jason Sandy.
May 29, 2021 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
I am reliably informed that today is #NationalBiscuitDay.

Here is a 🧵 of all the biscuits I've made so far in 2021.

First up, my William Morris set. Inspired by an old @V_and_A calendar, everything hand-piped in royal icing. Flavour: cardamom, orange & vanilla. This one was based on The Phoenix Portrait of Elizabeth I.

Royal icing is v. fabulous for embroidery effects. I'm also obsessed with gold details on biscuits. All details piped on and painted with edible metallic/pearlescent powders. (2/?)