Antique Crochet Samples Album on Red Cotton, Chock Full antique yelloware And The Contrast

And The Contrast

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

and figures praying over baby Jesus in his crib below it--but the design got a bit abstracted along the way

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

The is small piece of the gold grip of the ink pen that appears to have broken off on its back side

Antique Crochet Samples Album on Red Cotton, Chock Full antique yelloware And The ContrastI'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