Hunting Dogs, Mare and Foal, Double Sided Later 19th Century Ink Sketches hand-painted porcelain bear My favorite darning samples are

My favorite darning samples are the very fine early Dutch ones and also very folky examples like this one

and I really love the analog method of simulating action

as if to say 'don't you dare try to take my lamb

missing the arm or larger mechanism to which it once attached

and Wilson streets in Portland

Hunting Dogs, Mare and Foal, Double Sided Later 19th Century Ink Sketches hand-painted porcelain bear My favorite darning samples areThis came from a later 19th century sketchbook found in Pennsylvania last summer, which included a few wonderful folk art watercolor drawings of a very different nature that I pulled out and quickly sold; going through some piles this week I came back across this one though and find it both sides of it too charming to throw into the summer flea market pile. These hunting dogs have a lot of life in them I think, and I especially love the face on the