Friday, March 18, 2011

A tiny little treasure...

I was shopping around in my favorite antiques stores today and ran across this little bag...
The front of the bag is embossed with the word darnings. I just had to take this home with me. Inside I found these...
What a cute little bag! Filled with tiny cards of darning thread. The colors are all so muted, I wonder what she used to mend. Most of the cards say the thread was made in England and the larger card was used to mend silk hosiery. So cool!
I feel honored to have her darning kit....

1 comment:

"Pretty Little Things" said...

I just love how you see things like I do. I love thinking about who owned the antiques I buy and what they did with them. I imagine we shared the same interests a decade later. Sisters of some sort.
Margo