Very Fine Antique Dutch Silk on Linen Darning Sampler with Golden Threads, 1816, Professionally Framed as Found traditional mola This is one of three

This is one of three woodblock postcards I purchased from a seller in Japan--one of two wonderful monkeys from 1932

My guess is perhaps a school project many years ago--though these at least look very much like the work of a teacher

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including an essay by Patrick Furneaux tracing the history and development of printmaking centers and cooperatives in the regions featured

Very Fine Antique Dutch Silk on Linen Darning Sampler with Golden Threads, 1816, Professionally Framed as Found traditional mola This is one of threeAmong the things I'm obsessed with, darning samplers are at the top of the list, especially very finely executed 18th and earlier 19th century Dutch ones like this, dated 1816 to me just astounding in the beauty of those laborious, painstakingly precise, gorgeously colored, intricately patterned darns. (Darns being essentially small, freehand weavings used to mend holes in cloth, and a darning sampler like this a showcase of the maker's ability to