Wonderfully Colorful and Varied C. 1900 Dutch Darning Sampler traditional Swedish craft Cylindrical boxes such as this

Cylindrical boxes such as this

and looks to have a fair amount of age

but I love how much it reads like a modern sculpture

which could not be more perfect

which comes off looking a bit rougher and more rustic than it really is

Wonderfully Colorful and Varied C. 1900 Dutch Darning Sampler traditional Swedish craft Cylindrical boxes such as thisIf 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