Antique Premier Art Embroidery Silk, 120 Color Sample Card May They will stand upright balanced

They will stand upright balanced against one another

Surface aging as evident but completely indestructible

as is this case with this wonderful

lightening

This appears to be an original drawing done in black marker

Antique Premier Art Embroidery Silk, 120 Color Sample Card May They will stand upright balancedI just can't resist these old thread color sample cards when I come across them yet another means of delivering the pure joy of color, and the more colors the better, 120 of them here. Plus the satisfying geometry of all those tightly pulled lines of threads, composing a grid. Pretty rose colored cloth over board cover with embossed gold lettering, too, reading simply "Premier Art Embroidery Silk." Late 19th c. very early 20th c. I believe. Closed: 8