National Aniline & Chemical Co. Nacco Dyes Color Samples on Thread, 90 Colors vintage teak vase stable now

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Springtime always seems to put me in the mood to buy pottery—whether vases for flowers or a colorful bowl like this that just feels sunshine

whose right arm moves up and down to raise or lower his crop

all the better when that photograph has itself accrued a patina that seems to further enhance the innate character of the place

I always have an eye out for great stools that would make great pedestals to arrange other things atop

National Aniline & Chemical Co. Nacco Dyes Color Samples on Thread, 90 Colors vintage teak vase stable nowMore total gorgeousness this the second of two antique dye color samplers listed today, both I think about as good as it gets. I seem to have an insatiable want for color these days, and these feel like pure sustenance to me. This one, for Nacco Dyes, was produced by the National Aniline & Chemical Co., c. 1910s 20s and features 90 color samples, applied to a mix of silks, wools, and cottons, thus feeling like a textile sampler as well as a color one.