Subtle But Amazing c. 1900 Dutch Darning Sampler with 60 Plus Darnings Arviat carving and drawing a bit of

and drawing a bit of a parallel between the miner with his pick axe and the carver with his chisel

My guess is that he was meant to represent Uncle Sam

who seems a much needed presence and herald at the moment

who I believe purchased them some years ago from a notable Pennsylvania collection of naive drawings--and how happy I was to discover them

Just a bit irregular in size

Subtle But Amazing c. 1900 Dutch Darning Sampler with 60 Plus Darnings Arviat carving and drawing a bit ofI 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