Frances Billings' Very Sweet Seventh Grade Herbarium, c. 1910s-20s american penmanship ) Handmade in Indonesia

) Handmade in Indonesia

with the wood showing through in beautiful ways

with very satisfying proportions

and for me all about the very excellent dog sitting atop red ball

Frances Billings' Very Sweet Seventh Grade Herbarium, c. 1910s-20s american penmanship ) Handmade in IndonesiaA very sweet group of 24 "nature studies," housed in a cloth covered three ring binder though those binder rings pull at the holes in the somewhat brittle paper, making them not so easy to flip through so I'd keep them loose inside, or get some of these into frames. Sometimes one loves love herbarium for their exquisiteness, and sometimes for the humble earnestness this is more the latter, but really very lovely too. I love the paper they were done