Antique Crochet Samples Album on Red Cotton, Chock Full antique bone jack straws ink and watercolor and a

ink and watercolor and a little gouache too I believe

in most cases

the lemon stands alone

(Agrippina Major and Minor had died by 59 CE

there is plenty of light scratching

Antique Crochet Samples Album on Red Cotton, Chock Full antique bone jack straws ink and watercolor and aI'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