Early 20th Century Dutch Notebook with Colored Pencil Darning Diagrams and Notes studded How not to completely love

How not to completely love it I really don't know

alligatoring on the larger

5 1/8" t x 2 1/2" w x 1 1/4" d

the latter of which I have not tried to clean as I think it is all to the good

) The scratches and subtle halo around his head just amplifies the effect

Early 20th Century Dutch Notebook with Colored Pencil Darning Diagrams and Notes studded How not to completely loveAs a lover of antique Dutch darning samplers, I was especially delighted to find this Dutch notebook dated 1906, which contains a series drawings diagrams, together with handwritten notes, detailing methods for executing a series of darns. As abstract drawings, rendered in colored pencil, they're quite lovely things (as are darns themselves!), but understanding each drawn line and loop as representing a thread I think makes them even better. Pretty