Oblong folio. (25)ff. Hand-colored etchings by MacDonald are tipped in throughout, each one depicting equipment of housekeeping: a sewing machine, a basket, an iron, laundry dangling from a clothespin. The connection between domestic craft (sweeping, sewing, ironing) and artistic craft (calligraphy, illustration, papermaking) permeates the volume materially, visually, and poetically. As Alvarez's Foreword states, "crafts bring with them stories" foundational to communities of women. Stab-bound in buckram over boards with marbled endpapers. Fine. Housed in archive four-flap chemise. Inscribed to collector of calligraphy and fellow practitioner of the art, Gay Ayers.