Two Beautiful Old Wooden Forms wicker covered flask who took his inspiration from

who took his inspiration from a woman creating a Grenfell Mission rug

I believe these date to the mid-to-late 19th century

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Two Beautiful Old Wooden Forms wicker covered flask who took his inspiration fromOne of the things I read over holiday break was Norman Brosterman's Inventing Kindergarten, about Frederick Froebel and his philosophies about early learning, which lead to his creation of kindergarten and the "gifts" which were central to it. One of the things it made think about was the centrality of play in leading to understanding, and also about how things (like a wooden block) placed in relationship to other things (like a wooden sphere)