Endlessly Unfolding Red Leather Portfolio of 79 1850s-60s Hand-embroidered Lace Samples cut paper silhouettes is a cut out of

is a cut out of a pig glued to construction paper holding a sign that reads

threaded with a piece of string as I found it

and a split in the bottom

thanking Our Lady of San Juan de los Lagos

And on the underside of the lids are old handwritten notes and numbers written in pencil

Endlessly Unfolding Red Leather Portfolio of 79 1850s-60s Hand-embroidered Lace Samples cut paper silhouettes is a cut out of(Forgive the not very good photos of this one which is also too long to capture in one photo.) I'm finding myself these days drawn to opposite extremes very "primitive" things at one end, and exquisitely, skillfully, laboriously crafted at the other, with this red leather folio sampler showing 79 examples of hand embroidered " appenzeller" lace created 1850 60, a prime example of the latter. Can you imagine? I purchased this from a favorite treasure