AM's Early School Slate with Unusual Make Do Leather and Square Nail Repair arts and crafts pottery bowl solid and substantial and with

solid and substantial and with a really nice sculptural presence

including in a partial headstand

And with sleeves rolled up under her stained smock-like dress

and the left side of his base

these blocks are clearly quite old

AM's Early School Slate with Unusual Make Do Leather and Square Nail Repair arts and crafts pottery bowl solid and substantial and withIf I had the space, I would fill a whole wall with antique school slates with mends and carved in marks of all sorts. So much life and artful repair born of necessity embedded in them. As it is, I am always looking. Rare in my experience to find one with a repair done in leather, which is what makes this one particularly special to me. Attached by three square nails, each nail backed by a leather round in front of the larger leather triangle, which