Wonderfully Colorful and Varied C. 1900 Dutch Darning Sampler traditional Swedish craft which could not be more

which could not be more perfect

visualizing a whole collection arranged across a few shelves

Cylindrical boxes such as this

and a little staining here and there on inside (white wool) pages

Wonderfully Colorful and Varied C. 1900 Dutch Darning Sampler traditional Swedish craft which could not be moreIf you are reading this, you probably strongly identify with certain objects, especially ones with history, as I do. For me, an antique darning sampler, as much as most any other sort of thing, feels like life itself: torn over and over in order to be carefully, beautifully mended, with the mends together creating a portrait of all sorts of different solutions to the problem of the tear. And then age and stains and marks of being folded and put away