Fabulous Old Checkerboard Folk Art Hooked Rug, 29 x 48 Inches antique corkscrew as one would expect

as one would expect

The striking contrast between the wood of the matchsticks and their charcoal tips

or string a wire or ribbon and turn her into a large xmas tree ornament

but the hair samples themselves are stitched onto the blue paper so I might be wary to try to remove them entirely

Fabulous Old Checkerboard Folk Art Hooked Rug, 29 x 48 Inches antique corkscrew as one would expectThe more I'm out looking at things, the more the fields of things attracting me grows. Hooked rugs are not something Ive dipped into much, in part because the very singular ones I really fall in love with tend to be well beyond my reach. But then theres one like this, just all about color and pattern and labor, satisfying to my eye like building blocks and color charts, and tactile to boot. I of course also love it for its moments of disruption and