The Progressive Reader Volume Two, As Found, with Monarchs! antique checkerboard white and blue silk thread

white and blue silk thread (now pink

but I think photos make it look dirtier than it is

perhaps Ukranian

I especially love the combination of blue rug

The Progressive Reader Volume Two, As Found, with Monarchs! antique checkerboard white and blue silk threadIve come more and more to delight in old books as physical objects and for the histories their readers have left behind in and on their pages, and opening this one to find these two monarchs felt like a message from the universe to reclaim it. Based on the paper towels they were carefully folded into Id say this reader served a few generations, with the butterflies probably held inside for 50 or 60 years. The reader itself shows a 1909 copyright and