I’ve become a Pinterest addict. I can’t help it. I have always collected images for my blogs from a variety of sources, including museums, other bloggers, and historical websites. When I can, I provide attribution. Pinterest allows me to share interesting images in an easy and public forum. Just look at my fashion Pins. I have divided them into the following categories: 18th and 19th century fashions. Click here to see the full 18th and 19th century fashion board.
1775-1799: Click here to see the full board.
1800-1810: Click here to see the full board.
1811-1820: Click here to see the full board.
1821-1830: Click here to see the full board.
Regency Dandy: Click here to see the full board.
I love how I can file my images in logical Pinterest Boards, such as the ones you see above. I’d been collecting images for my private files, but now I can easily share them. Other bloggers have discovered this social media as well, sharing their unique pins (images) with others. I am thinking in particular of Two Nerdy History Girls, Austen Only, Evangeline Holland from Edwardian Promenade, and Heather Carroll from Marie Antoinette’s Gossip Guide
Pinterest is supposed to represent one’s personal interests. My fashion boards, especially, represent my POV. I like to mix up portraits, accessories, costumes, and fashion plates, so that the viewer gains a sense of what a lady’s (or dandy’s) wardrobe might look like in a particular time frame. I often think hard about the combination, making sure to provide a mix. In a few months, I plan to subdivide my boards, to provide a story about fashion or architecture, from which a student of Jane Austen’s World can take away a unique story.
I do have one major beef. While most people repin my images here and there, there are individuals who will repin hundreds of my images in one sitting. Mind you, it has taken me months to assemble the boards that represent my interests. To see one pinner simply appropriate more than 20 images in one sitting burns me up.
If you decide to join Pinterest, enjoy yourself! I do encourage you to follow Pinterest etiquette, however. In all things ask yourself: What would Jane Austen do? Join Vic’s Pinterest account at this link: http://pinterest.com/janeaustenworld/
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Once again you astonish me Vic, what a delight you are; I’d never heard of this before indeed I’d never given the subject any thought simply because I never knew of it; I shall now take a keen interest in Pinterest. Thank you again, Brian ;o)
Welcome to the addiction of Pinterest, i will search you there. Nice Boards!!!
I haven’t dipped my toe into that particular pool because I am afraid of becoming addicted! My daughter, an engagement/wedding photographer, has found a lot of things there that she enjoys and uses in her business. Glad that you do, though, because your posts always benefit from it!
AWESOME!
Wow! I’d never heard of it before either. Ooooohhh I love those clothes. Great boards! Such hard work and I’m so glad you enjoy it and decided to share.
Wow, great. I knew Pinterest but I never thought of looking for images all around JA and her era. I admire your work and I want to say thank you for all your time and all your energy you put in your blog and collection of information and images.
Good one Vic. I admire your effort and hard work,, as ever. Tony
I was amazed at all the wonderful info shown on your Pinterest boards. Thank you for doing all of that for us that love love this kind of thing. I am sure I will spend a lot of time looking at all the wonderful items you gave for us to see. Thank you again do very much..
What I struggle with is not so much the raping aka mass re-pinning, but the lack of description coupled with the lack of attribution. I can take the lack of description as long as there is a link to the source, but the lack of both is terribly frustrating. However, what makes me insanely angry is when someone takes an upload of mine and doesn’t link it back to the source. I don’t care so much for personal credit but I do care about that. Why they do it, I don’t know, it seems it would be a lot of work compared to just re-pinning the damn thing.
Agree! Only once in a while do I erase the link, which is when WOT (web of trust) tells me that the site is unsafe. If I find a pin without attribution and use it, chances are that later I can find the source and fill in the blanks.
I love your pins, BTW!
I’ve gotten to the point where it is rare for me to re-pin anything that doesn’t have a source. If there is one, it’s either because it’s old or it so exceptional I couldn’t resist; if it’s mine, it’s because I forgot to upload the link!
You have a lovely collection, Vic. What a joy to look at.
Thank you, Ella. I see that you joined! I will follow you as soon as you have more than one pin. Hah!
I remember when you vented about the mass image repinning on your Twitter. It’s annoying because it appears as if that person is taking all of the credit for compiling all of those images on their own. I’ve repinned a few of your items from time to time and I am always flattered when someone repins one of mine. But it’s just plain rude to appropriate an entire board.
Welcome to the Pinterest addicts club! One of my boards is called “All Things Jane” where I have collected images of old books and other such things. I will start following you on Pinterest as well! I may already have a couple of your images but I’m not sure. I’ve been gathering holiday ideas lately and have, sadly ignored the Jane-ness of things.
Excellent Vic I’ll have to follow you on pintrest. I discovered it over a year ago and I’m hooked. I’ve heard it defined as online hoarding which suits my ‘collectors’ personality.
Thank you so much for these great pins! I’ve been combing Google all day for clothes and accessories from different sets of years during Georgian and Regency periods. You’ve done a much better job than I could hope to do, and I find easy research done for me! This is the second time that my researching has brought me to your blog, both times with great results. Thanks again!
(And don’t worry; I’m not going to appropriate all your images, although if I had a Pinterest account, I’d understand the temptation–what you think is pretty and interesting happens to be very much in line with my own tastes).
I also have spent hours searching the web for special images that work to create my own unique boards. I absolutely do not mind others repinning but when someone repins an entire board of mine, I feel ripped off. Last night someone repinned 60 of my pins – an entire board – to create their “own” board with even the same board name I used. I checked their acct and they seem to do this to others, on a mass scale – with something like 66,000 pins. It seems as if they are just trying to have the ‘most’ pins without regard for the time and creative effort of others who create “their” boards for them.
I have been so disheartened by this flagrant board plagiarizing that I am waiting until I have time to save my boards as PDF and then am deleting my Pinterest acct. It’s just not much fun to try to create unique boards and have others claim my efforts as their own.
And your boards are terrific, Vic! A massive amount of work and thoughtfully done!
Sasha, that is so disheartening! Especially when one puts thought and effort into a board. I like to mix up images, especially in the fashion boards, mixing up photos of fashion, with fashion images made during the Regency era, with paintings, with accessories, etc. That way a viewer gets an idea of the fashion of the era and how clothes were used and worn, not just a view of a collection of dresses. Many pinners who appropriate dozens of images from my boards fail to see that – the hone in on one aspect only.
I don’t think I have ever had anyone take ALL of my images from one board only. That is blatant and shouldn’t be allowed. I have written Pinterest. One would think that they can prevent a pinner from repinning more than 20 images from one board. But I never heard back from them.
I don’t know…if an image is my own I always “watermark” it and don’t mind the re-pinning. If someone wants to pin a whole bunch of images I’ve gathered I choose to be flattered by it. Once in awhile I find someone who has named one of their boards the same name I’ve given one of mine but I’m not clever enough to come up with something so unique that someone else may not think of it as well. If I were an artist or more than a casual photographer I might get annoyed but, otherwise, I’m OK with it. I’ve rarely pinned something from a website that didn’t have a link attached to it unless I’ve pinned it from a pinner who didn’t include it. I’ve also noticed that Wikipedia doesn’t include a link with their images.