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

Cylindrical boxes such as this

but I think it would really fun to host a party and serve daisy-shaped ice cream treats

and then the nearly identical white letters against black on the flip side

1880s British

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