Antique Crochet Samples Album on Red Cotton, Chock Full antique yelloware I purchased this one from

I purchased this one from a Dutch dealer who maintains an outpost at a New Hampshire antiques store that I frequent

I found this guy in the same spot as the large “beware the undertow” folk art painting just listed—lifeguard to the rescue

And I especially love the old iron nails that run both down the front and around the perimeter of the sole and across the heel

The basketry covering the jug is woven of flat wicker splints

I believe most like a tanner--and there is a tool in his hand

Antique Crochet Samples Album on Red Cotton, Chock Full antique yelloware I purchased this one fromI'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