Eleanor Clarice Hayes' Short and Sweet Grade IV Sewing Samples Booklet plastic I especially love the color

I especially love the color variation on the drippy glazing

craggy sort of surface that makes it read more like concrete now

I found a few of these a few months ago in Maine

with the coronation scene depicted I believe likely 15th-16th century

Eleanor Clarice Hayes' Short and Sweet Grade IV Sewing Samples Booklet plastic I especially love the colorI love an old sewing lessons booklet like penmanship practice notebooks, each is its own thing depending on who made it and when, with lessons taught, materials used, etc varying over time. This is an especially brief one, just four samples completed by our young Eleanor, but I find them especially lovely in a very minimal, and also tenderly humble way, and especially for their handwritten captions, which feel almost like found poetry. Basting.