E.I DuPont Chrome Colors for Men's Wear, 90 Color Samples on Pulled Wool, c. 1930s-40s antique handmade paper dolls I really love the push

I really love the push and pull between pasted down bits of printed text and the hand-written lettering running underneath

perfectly framing and holding within it all of the dynamics and resonance of the "exposed" stamped on its face --indeed

written using a secret code

and all the better for what time has done to the colors

and perhaps the most enduring portraits of ourselves most of us have

E.I DuPont Chrome Colors for Men's Wear, 90 Color Samples on Pulled Wool, c. 1930s-40s antique handmade paper dolls I really love the pushThis is a scarce one, in pristine condition, barely opened I think since being gifted from E. I du Pont de Nemours & Co. to the library of some unknown someone in the 1930s or 40s. I'm always on the hunt for color sample cards and books, satisfying things to look at, and useful reference and inspirational fodder for all sorts of contemporary creative production, too. Ninety dye samples here, "selected because they bear the properties necessary for the