Antique Crochet Samples Album on Red Cotton, Chock Full antique yelloware but it's holding one

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

I believe most like a tanner--and there is a tool in his hand

The basketry covering the jug is woven of flat wicker splints

Antique Crochet Samples Album on Red Cotton, Chock Full antique yelloware but it's holding oneI'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