Micheline Blas French Sewing Lessons Notebook #2, With Hand-painted Cover and Alphabet Sampler primitive kitchen a folk art bookend book

a folk art bookend book of Black Magic with skull and cross bones to mark a film about a writer battling a vampire cum antiques dealer seems just right

Top left soldier approx 3 1/2" tall

Painted a sort of gold with varnish over top I believe

feeling quite like a modernist sculpture

Micheline Blas French Sewing Lessons Notebook #2, With Hand-painted Cover and Alphabet Sampler primitive kitchen a folk art bookend bookThe second of two French sewing notebooks listed today, both completed by a Micheline Blas c. 1940. This one is not quite as full as the other, but it covers good ground too, with examples demonstrating various types of stitching, seams, hems, fastenings, patching, darning, and knitting, as well as handwritten inventory of linens for the newborn's "layette"! And best of all, a nice small alphabet sampler executed in the typical French manner, out of