Images from top to bottom courtesy of: SilverPheasant.com, sixstarsales.org, penguinscience.com, stickbow.com, terryco.us. artbynature.ca, hainaultforest.co.uk, takoda-aviary.com
Images from top to bottom, courtesy of: pixdaus.com, edcug.org, made-in-england.org, universityprincess.files.wordpress.com, onevintagephoto.files.wordpress.com; Jean Jacques Henner, Solitude, oil on canvas, courtesy of en.wikipedia.org.
Images from top to bottom, courtesy of SRI Threads: Boro futon cover, ca. late nineteenth century Sashiko Furoshiki, ca. late nineteenth to early-to-mid twentieth century Boro, Taisho Era, ca. 1920 Boro from Sakabukuro (sake straining bags), ca. early to mid twentieth century Katazome Boro, ca. 1900 Kotatsugake Boro, ca. mid twentieth century