Wonderfully Colorful and Varied C. 1900 Dutch Darning Sampler traditional Swedish craft which is unmarked--providing no clue

which is unmarked--providing no clue as to the maker of the glove

but I think it would really fun to host a party and serve daisy-shaped ice cream treats

and looks to have a fair amount of age

Cylindrical boxes such as this

and then the nearly identical white letters against black on the flip side

Wonderfully Colorful and Varied C. 1900 Dutch Darning Sampler traditional Swedish craft which is unmarked--providing no clueIf you are reading this, you probably strongly identify with certain objects, especially ones with history, as I do. For me, an antique darning sampler, as much as most any other sort of thing, feels like life itself: torn over and over in order to be carefully, beautifully mended, with the mends together creating a portrait of all sorts of different solutions to the problem of the tear. And then age and stains and marks of being folded and put away