Fragments. Remembrances. Scraps of cloth or small tokens attached to the handwritten records of foundling children were kept as a means of identification. It was hoped that these remembrances would be a means of one day uniting mother and child under more hopeful circumstances. Occasionally, there were happy endings where the child was reclaimed, apprenticed, ...
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While researching book bindings for a project, I've been coming across these gorgeous embroidered book covers and bindings from the 16th and 17th century. Thought I'd make a blog post out of these exquisite works of art.. The original scans for the books are scattered throughout The British Library Database of Bookbindings. I've just selected, ...
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Now this was a lot of fun to discover. I purchased an old leather sewing kit. It was in excellent shape and apparently had nothing inside it except a rusty threaded needle and brown paper padding at the bottom. However, there was something quite interesting and well hidden wrapped in that plain brown paper. The mysterious ...
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I first ran into this weird little doll about four years ago, close to when we moved here from Boston. He lived in a glass case in one of the local antique markets. I'm not really a doll person per se. I don't collect them and I didn't often play with them when I was ...
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