Painted Bentwood Pantry Box with Beautiful Old Nail Mends crepe paper With the crisp angled flap

With the crisp angled flap completing it just right formally when turned up

standing side by side as if conversation about the nature of hoover-ing and engaged in a passing of the torch

each can perform that function for the other

Really sweet

Painted Bentwood Pantry Box with Beautiful Old Nail Mends crepe paper With the crisp angled flapAnother 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