Painted Bentwood Pantry Box with Beautiful Old Nail Mends crepe paper There are so many gorgeous

There are so many gorgeous textiles out there from so many places

This is one of a new batch of several antique math and geometry notebooks just in--from a bookseller in England whose late husband collected them

The box measures 4 1/4" across x 2 5/8" tall

but it will hold in position

each can perform that function for the other

Painted Bentwood Pantry Box with Beautiful Old Nail Mends crepe paper There are so many gorgeousAnother example of mends making something much more special. This is an antique oyster painted pantry box (no lid), to my eye made very beautiful by the nail repairs to the splits along the bottom long ago, which have the effect of calling attention to the sweeping lines of those splits, and giving a sense of gesture and movement to the whole thing. On the flip side are nails marching up the front, but it is the otherwise spare mended side (with