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a few in sanguine
and drawing a bit of a parallel between the miner with his pick axe and the carver with his chisel
which I imagine him doing on a leisurely afternoon at the track
) and would venture to guess this was indeed a self-portrait
Subtle But Amazing c. 1900 Dutch Darning Sampler with 60 Plus Darnings Arviat carving a few in sanguineI purchased this one from a seller in the Netherlands who deals a lot in darning samplers, and from whom I've bought a couple of others in the past. She used "wow!" to describe this one, c. 1900, and I have to agree I've never see one packed with as many darnings as this. That itself speaks to this one cloth have been worked for many many many hours, with each darning beginning as a cut puncture to the cloth, which the darning would then mend. A wide
