Eleanor Clarice Hayes' Short and Sweet Grade IV Sewing Samples Booklet plastic (And I do currently have

(And I do currently have another boxless set of about 40 I've not listed

which makes all of those flowers feel very voluptuous

I especially love the color variation on the drippy glazing

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

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

Eleanor Clarice Hayes' Short and Sweet Grade IV Sewing Samples Booklet plastic (And I do currently haveI 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.