Antique Crochet Samples Album on Red Cotton, Chock Full antique bone jack straws I nabbed this painted metal

I nabbed this painted metal sign just because I liked it

and made of a pinkish clay or plaster

in most cases

ink and watercolor and a little gouache too I believe

Antique Crochet Samples Album on Red Cotton, Chock Full antique bone jack straws I nabbed this painted metalI've bought and sold a couple of crochet sample books in the past, but it's been quite a while since I found one I really loved. In this case it is especially the pages of horizontal trim densely arranged on the pages like lines of text in a book that really sold me; feels positively semiotic! And really a lot of diversity and complexity to the samples all the way through, with each page well composed and fully packed. And of course the hand dyed red