I got out to the rummage sale, and found some good finds: a set of books by John Ruskin, a very daintily-worked handkerchief, and a box of canning jars.
The Ruskin books I am excited about, because Ruskin was a friend of George MacDonald, who have I been doing a unit study of my own on. Ruskin is more often quoted from than read, and apparently that was true even back in the day, because every volume in this 135-year-old set that I have opened so far has uncut pages.
The handkerchief has not only embroidery, but also needle lace openwork where the threads that were worked are too small for me to see clearly without magnification.
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