Subtle But Amazing c. 1900 Dutch Darning Sampler with 60 Plus Darnings 1871 stencil I'm increasingly drawn to portraiture

I'm increasingly drawn to portraiture

which I find really lovely and rather magical

but I think is quite lovely still--ideally destined for another Mary

especially for a games night--and then they could also be used to mark the trump in bridge

Subtle But Amazing c. 1900 Dutch Darning Sampler with 60 Plus Darnings 1871 stencil I'm increasingly drawn to portraitureI purchased this one from a seller in the Netherlands who deals a lot in darning samplers, and from whom I've bought a couple of others in the past. She used "wow!" to describe this one, c. 1900, and I have to agree I've never see one packed with as many darnings as this. That itself speaks to this one cloth have been worked for many many many hours, with each darning beginning as a cut puncture to the cloth, which the darning would then mend. A wide