Design, Shakespeare, biscuit art. Senior Lecturer in Research & Innovation at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. Book: Shakespeare in Elizabethan Costume (Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare). She/her.https://bsky.app/profile/ellamchawk.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/ellamchawk.bsky.social/post/3megn4xckis2lSome mudlarking finds survived for centuries in the muddy banks of the River Thames. Others are freshly baked tasty snacks. 🍪 This biscuit (cookie) set recreates ten of the 350+ mudlarked objects in London Museum's Secrets of the Thames exhibition. The exhibition closes on 1 March. Don’t miss it!09 Feb 2026 14:15 +0000at://did:plc:karaktxrnhur7zho6bxmlf2c/app.bsky.feed.post/3megn4xckis2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/ellamchawk.bsky.social/post/3lwgg2iqe222dWilliam De Morgan was the Arts & Crafts movement’s most brilliant and prolific ceramic artist. This biscuit (cookie) set is inspired by some of his many tile designs. 🍪15 Aug 2025 08:16 +0000at://did:plc:karaktxrnhur7zho6bxmlf2c/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwgg2iqe222dhttps://bsky.app/profile/ellamchawk.bsky.social/post/3lqc5p6gop223Today is National Biscuit Day, and it’s about time that I populated this account with biscuit (cookie) sets from the past few years. Here are some of my favourites. 🧵 First up, a set inspired by the delicious designs of William Morris and John Henry Dearle.29 May 2025 07:04 +0000at://did:plc:karaktxrnhur7zho6bxmlf2c/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqc5p6gop223https://bsky.app/profile/ellamchawk.bsky.social/post/3ldq2rg5knc2g’Tis the season for a biscuit set inspired by Victorian scrapbooking. 🍪 These festive scraps come from two scrapbooks in the Powerhouse Collection, both thought to have been compiled by children between 1880 and 1890.20 Dec 2024 09:22 +0000at://did:plc:karaktxrnhur7zho6bxmlf2c/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldq2rg5knc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/ellamchawk.bsky.social/post/3lckcsh5owc25Centuries ago, many astronomical books included moving parts to help readers interpret the world around them. This biscuit recreates a diagram from Sacrobosco’s ‘De Sphaera’ (c.1550). It could be used to calculate the changing length of daylight hours through the year. 🍪05 Dec 2024 09:04 +0000at://did:plc:karaktxrnhur7zho6bxmlf2c/app.bsky.feed.post/3lckcsh5owc25