Very Beautiful Object, 1830 Pennsylvania German Catechism Book with Gorgeous Papered Cover and Striped Pages kindergarten history and then a thin strip

and then a thin strip at the waist holding them together

Constructed of tightly coiled grass and in near perfect condition

and a sky blue painted interior

like a mask or a basket

I like both sides but perhaps am a bit partial to the graphite-drawn one

Very Beautiful Object, 1830 Pennsylvania German Catechism Book with Gorgeous Papered Cover and Striped Pages kindergarten history and then a thin stripI like all different sorts of books for all different sorts of reasons, but in the case of this one it is completely about its formal properties most immediately that hand printed paper cover, making it seem like a wall paper box of the very early and most beautiful variety. (It looks almost like wax resist printing in appearance, with the natural cream of the paper revealed as circles through the applied golden honey color of the cover.) And then