Antique Crochet Samples Album on Red Cotton, Chock Full antique yelloware And I especially love the

And I especially love the old iron nails that run both down the front and around the perimeter of the sole and across the heel

3 3/8" x 5/8" x 5/16" when completely folded

but it's holding one

and figures praying over baby Jesus in his crib below it--but the design got a bit abstracted along the way

pretty great looking too

Antique Crochet Samples Album on Red Cotton, Chock Full antique yelloware And I especially love theI've bought and sold a couple of crochet sample books in the past, but it's been quite a while since I found one I really loved. In this case it is especially the pages of horizontal trim densely arranged on the pages like lines of text in a book that really sold me; feels positively semiotic! And really a lot of diversity and complexity to the samples all the way through, with each page well composed and fully packed. And of course the hand dyed red