Eleanor Clarice Hayes' Short and Sweet Grade IV Sewing Samples Booklet plastic 22) next to the RELIEF

22) next to the RELIEF reading as No Relief--which of course often seems to be the case these days on numerous sorts of levels

The subject  here is kabuki performer Nakamura Shikan II and his son Nakamura Komataro

which makes all of those flowers feel very voluptuous

) Vivid color

Eleanor Clarice Hayes' Short and Sweet Grade IV Sewing Samples Booklet plastic 22) next to the RELIEFI love an old sewing lessons booklet like penmanship practice notebooks, each is its own thing depending on who made it and when, with lessons taught, materials used, etc varying over time. This is an especially brief one, just four samples completed by our young Eleanor, but I find them especially lovely in a very minimal, and also tenderly humble way, and especially for their handwritten captions, which feel almost like found poetry. Basting.