it's in Ankara

I don't even have a guess, but I hope it is LIBRARY as others have guessed.

Pizza delivery.

quiet time in the bathroom

Nice vacation

Usually use a large, red, vintage pyrex bowl. If salad is for a crowd, we use a walnut bowl that is about 20 inches across and six inches deep. I don't really think either bowl is pretty. I think we have a cut glass punch bowl in the garage that we could use if we wanted a big pretty bowl for a crowd.

Kitch4me, yes, similar taste!😁 The cabbage bowl is 12” wide and larger than it might look. I don’t have any small ones. This pic shows the large pasta serving bowl with the smaller bowls. The serving bowl is 13” and the 4 bowls are 10”. Definitely good sizes for pasta or salad.

After I broke one of my newer little Mikasa bowls, I realzed I also had the little individual bowls that matched the big one I posted. I think I still have one somewhere but not sure where it is. The rest are long gone. I had forgotten about them.

I remember bucket hats that had beer cans incorporated into the design. Maybe that was in the early '70s.

Will they match my granny square vest?

Well, not this one, but remember?

I love the hats!

I'll see if I can find it.

Found an older black lacquer bento box painted with gold and red chrysanthemum leaves and flowers --$4. It has two stackable layers, but doesn't have dividers as the new plastic ones I see. I have already slipped recently purchased seed packets into it, though we might end up using it for something else.

Edit: Attempting to add photo lifted from ebay.

Apologies for the swerve, but mtn's post reminded of a really interesting YouTube video I watched recently, about carpet makers in India, supplying handmade rugs to stores like Pottery Barn, etc. Perhaps some here might find it as interesting as I did...

Big difference between hand knotted and tufted. And a ton of variables beyond that.

Yes, of course, which is why I mentioned quality differences. But, as you see, the choice was between hand loomed, and tufted. The $1250 one was not knotted either.

Have to look at the video. When we travelled to India, we visited a place where they dyed cloth in big clay vats. The merchant we met with kept showing us things and then rattling off high end brand names, Things like "Osborne & Little," which is kind of insider-y. I don't doubt it though...

Pretty creative solution.

Am I seeing lotus root there? If so, is it dyed (with beet juice maybe)? Lotus root I've had is a putty color.