Wonderfully Colorful and Varied C. 1900 Dutch Darning Sampler animal head with wire edging that shows

with wire edging that shows a little rust

both just little gems of paintings

or Káínawa of southern Alberta

with a beautifully shaped hardwood handle and steel blade

It looks to me that he has a headlight on his hat

Wonderfully Colorful and Varied C. 1900 Dutch Darning Sampler animal head with wire edging that showsIf 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