We have all heard the saying “if these walls could talk.” It’s fun to imagine the things that might have happened in a house or business. April and I do this as well, but not only with walls. I think that is why we caught the antique and vintage “bug.”

April loves fabrics, especially the handmade or embroidered pieces. Names, initials, pictures, often made out of necessity. A mended feed sack or patch on a linen tractor umbrella tell the story of a farmer’s wife.  She was not only saving the family finances, but also fixing something that was just the “correct” thing to do.

I tend to gravitate to the patched enamelware pot, welded tool, or bolted harness. Oh, the stories the things could tell!  I will often see something at a sale and admire the lengths that someone went to in order to save it. Why? Was it sentimental, so specialized that it was irreplaceable, or just a story of economics?

Maybe that is why I am currently working on the Franken chairs. (see last week's post) I wonder who rocked this broken rocker or who ate dinner in that broken ladder back chair?  Who made them, how many were made, and where were they made. I can't help myself.

Tony