Fabulous Old Checkerboard Folk Art Hooked Rug, 29 x 48 Inches curious book And then too there were

And then too there were multiple generations of Dummers who had their hands in all of this

Signed on the bottom KM

I don't know a thing about the origins of this carved sculpture (which I don't think photos quite do justice)

She filled each and every page with a hopeful scroll

something about the angled ramp on the front side together together with the open square at center and the pitch of the green roof just totally does it for me

Fabulous Old Checkerboard Folk Art Hooked Rug, 29 x 48 Inches curious book And then too there wereThe 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