Antique Crochet Samples Album on Red Cotton, Chock Full antique yelloware I purchased this one from

I purchased this one from a Dutch dealer who maintains an outpost at a New Hampshire antiques store that I frequent

pretty great looking too

And I especially love the old iron nails that run both down the front and around the perimeter of the sole and across the heel

I believe most like a tanner--and there is a tool in his hand

and figures praying over baby Jesus in his crib below it--but the design got a bit abstracted along the way

Antique Crochet Samples Album on Red Cotton, Chock Full antique yelloware I purchased this one fromI've bought and sold a couple of crochet sample books in the past, but it's been quite a while since I found one I really loved. In this case it is especially the pages of horizontal trim densely arranged on the pages like lines of text in a book that really sold me; feels positively semiotic! And really a lot of diversity and complexity to the samples all the way through, with each page well composed and fully packed. And of course the hand dyed red