More Antique Schoolgirl  Cut, Woven and Punched Paper Works - Sold Individually

More Antique Schoolgirl Cut, Woven and Punched Paper Works - Sold Individually

$30.00
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I've been scooping up these antique schoolgirl cut paper samplers whenever I come across them, as I think they're just fantastically beautifully things. All of these pieces come from one sampler--which had already come unbound by the time I got it-- done by an unknown individual, late 19th or very early 20th century. Each piece is double sided, and I have labeled each with a number then A + B, with the A + B showing each side of that numbered piece. Price is per piece; please indicate at checkout the number of the piece or pieces you would like.  Collector Jim Lindeman posted a few examples of woven paper works similar to the ones in this notebook on his blog, "Dull Tool Dim Bulb" and writes about them wonderfully:   Did Josef Albers go to Kindergarten? [these woven paper works] illustrate Albers "interaction of color" in remarkable prescient form. Once fairly common, but increasingly hard to find, these 19th century schoolgirl craft pieces are among the most underrated forms of early

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