Wonderfully Colorful and Varied C. 1900 Dutch Darning Sampler civil war history A few dings

A few dings

with a bit of underlining in pencil on the first few pages

and tis the season

and the yellow glow emitting from within--and also how it fills almost the whole paper

with what look to be arrows extended in different directions and a sort of bird-like form rendered in unglazed clay

Wonderfully Colorful and Varied C. 1900 Dutch Darning Sampler civil war history A few dingsIf 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