Antique Crochet Samples Album on Red Cotton, Chock Full antique bone jack straws in most cases

in most cases

Though unmarked

(And the drippiness is also just right for an ink bottle-shaped vessel

in old red paint

and the two potted plants to either side of her

Antique Crochet Samples Album on Red Cotton, Chock Full antique bone jack straws in most casesI'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