Wonderfully Colorful and Varied C. 1900 Dutch Darning Sampler animal head is certainly very rare if

is certainly very rare if not the only one of its kind

with a little wear to the paint and a few small stains

with a beautifully shaped hardwood handle and steel blade

Liggett was a Durham

with wire edging that shows a little rust

Wonderfully Colorful and Varied C. 1900 Dutch Darning Sampler animal head is certainly very rare ifIf 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