Early 20th Century Dutch Notebook with Colored Pencil Darning Diagrams and Notes legs with note in pencil on

with note in pencil on reverse

and many years of use left in it

from old corner mounts

American Express was founded in 1850 as a  freight shipping and express mail dispatcher

was somewhat unevenly trimmed

Early 20th Century Dutch Notebook with Colored Pencil Darning Diagrams and Notes legs with note in pencil onAs a lover of antique Dutch darning samplers, I was especially delighted to find this Dutch notebook dated 1906, which contains a series drawings diagrams, together with handwritten notes, detailing methods for executing a series of darns. As abstract drawings, rendered in colored pencil, they're quite lovely things (as are darns themselves!), but understanding each drawn line and loop as representing a thread I think makes them even better. Pretty