Early 20th Century Dutch Notebook with Colored Pencil Darning Diagrams and Notes legs from old corner mounts

from old corner mounts

burnished on the exterior

with note in pencil on reverse

American Express was founded in 1850 as a  freight shipping and express mail dispatcher

Early 20th Century Dutch Notebook with Colored Pencil Darning Diagrams and Notes legs from old corner mountsAs 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