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The Parsimonious Oggs & Ends Souvenir Shelf by K8 requires Bon Voyage, has five slots, and comes in 20 Pooklet Project Mayhem Naturals over the Piggi Wood 03/SDA Castle Kitchen blend I've gotten so attached to.
Though there is some shading to add detail, this is not a carved recolor of the shelf; I may revisit it someday but I wanted to start with straight grain wood and the mapping was puzzling enough that by the time I figured out the back of the shelf tiles, but doesn't tile in time, as it were, with the shelves themselves, I just wanted to move on to the easy button-pushing part of the process.
Is this a historically accurate piece?
... Seems to depend on where you put it.
In a lot of the art I see, common people were hanging things from poles strung across the walls like ballet bars-- useful if you've got a lot of coppice woods around and you're mostly hanging things like herbs and onions and knives to keep them out of reach of the kids who should not yet have knives, things that need to go up but not stay up all the time-- while middle-and-upper-class shelving often seemed to be part of furniture, or built in to paneling. Often, in paintings of cluttered studies, there'll be a shelf full of partly books and other doodads half-covered by a curtain, to protect the books from light and smoke and whatever else was happening in that room, but most of what that means for this shelf is...
I dunno.
I don't think it was particularly easy to hang heavy things on your average medieval wall, but I don't know how hard it is to hammer into daub rather than drywall. (And honestly my experience with plaster is an experience with bad plaster, according to the high school choir teacher who kept getting frustrated with how the walls in the light booth kept crumbling.)
Do I care that this shelf feels period-plausible but physically perilous? I do not. It's a visually-appealing shelf that can hold Bon Voyage souvenirs, various knicknacks, small goodies from beachcombing, hiking, or digging for treasure, most Water Mod vessels, Ja's Alice Mini-Fridge, Michelle's Plain Vanity Mirror, Pescado's Clothing Tool, many different deco-books-as-bookshelf, and other such useful little jobberdoos that don't need to be on a specific sort of surface to function.
Shown with some Panacea Bottles on Pirate Bay walls for maximum Parsimonious. The polycount is 1,552, a smidge high for a one-tile object, but only a smidge. Just don't fill a wall with twenty of them.
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