Eleanor Clarice Hayes' Short and Sweet Grade IV Sewing Samples Booklet plastic The subject here is kabuki

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

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

I found a few of these a few months ago in Maine

I especially love the color variation on the drippy glazing

craggy sort of surface that makes it read more like concrete now

Eleanor Clarice Hayes' Short and Sweet Grade IV Sewing Samples Booklet plastic The subject here is kabukiI 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.