Early 20th Century Dutch Notebook with Colored Pencil Darning Diagrams and Notes legs Painted olive green on backsides

Painted olive green on backsides

Funny" and so making me think perhaps this box was used to contain

glued and silver painted on one side

with nice aging to the white paint on the animals and a nice warm dry wood patina to the fences

Early 20th Century Dutch Notebook with Colored Pencil Darning Diagrams and Notes legs Painted olive green on backsidesAs a lover of antique Dutch darning samplers, I was especially delighted to find this Dutch notebook dated 1906, which contains a series drawings diagrams, together with handwritten notes, detailing methods for executing a series of darns. As abstract drawings, rendered in colored pencil, they're quite lovely things (as are darns themselves!), but understanding each drawn line and loop as representing a thread I think makes them even better. Pretty