Red and Blue Calico Sampler of a Antique Quilt, 81 inches Square small carved box I purchased this old brass

I purchased this old brass boot at an estate sale at the family home of the former Plant Engineer at The United Shoe Machinery Company in Beverly

and I love flipping through the catalog to find sets of geometric solids and all sorts of late 1930s art supplies

and a red cut paper muleta pierced by the arm of one of them

sewn together of buttery soft white leather

produced by Standard Crayon Mfg

Red and Blue Calico Sampler of a Antique Quilt, 81 inches Square small carved box I purchased this old brassI pretty much never buy quilts to sell, in significant part because I am not well equipped to photograph them, but I found this one at an antiques shop in Nashville and just could not walk away from it. (I actually did, once, then went back the next day for it; it kept calling to me! And I would very glad to keep this one for myself) I am forever drawn to antique calicos, indigos especially, and this feels to me like quilt that is also as pure a