E.I DuPont Chrome Colors for Men's Wear, 90 Color Samples on Pulled Wool, c. 1930s-40s etched glass feeling almost like a post

feeling almost like a post mortem of these two dolls

I've always found stitching on baseballs super beautiful in and of itself and also as it calls attention to the  construction of the skin of the ball from two pieces leather laid in opposite directions

wearing seersucker and pastel colored suits--and I think likely have a proper English garden

making me think of both tumbleweeds and of Meret Oppenheim

but with the vesta produced during the same period as this one)

E.I DuPont Chrome Colors for Men's Wear, 90 Color Samples on Pulled Wool, c. 1930s-40s etched glass feeling almost like a postThis is a scarce one, in pristine condition, barely opened I think since being gifted from E. I du Pont de Nemours & Co. to the library of some unknown someone in the 1930s or 40s. I'm always on the hunt for color sample cards and books, satisfying things to look at, and useful reference and inspirational fodder for all sorts of contemporary creative production, too. Ninety dye samples here, "selected because they bear the properties necessary for the