Wonderfully Colorful and Varied C. 1900 Dutch Darning Sampler traditional Swedish craft visualizing a whole collection arranged

visualizing a whole collection arranged across a few shelves

Cylindrical boxes such as this

1880s British

and looks to have a fair amount of age

but I love how much it reads like a modern sculpture

Wonderfully Colorful and Varied C. 1900 Dutch Darning Sampler traditional Swedish craft visualizing a whole collection arrangedIf 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