Vintage red suitcase

Vintage red suitcase that I thrifted (Photo copyright Hanna Andersson)
My latest thrifty find.

Found a vintage red suitcase while thrifting.

It was really dirty and I want to change the fabric lining, but didn’t find the time for this summers traveling. Maybe next time this will be my altered art kit bag?

Inside the dirty vintage red suitcase that I thrifted (Photo copyright Hanna Andersson)

Also found this beauty:

Old text in a newly produced reproduction book

This is from a new printed book with lots of pages that showed a handwritten and drawn book!
Super cool stuff, and I won’t mind cutting in this either, for collage purposes.

Vintage Swedish school books Den roliga boken-and Resan till Läslandet läsebok för andra skolåret


I want to use these books too, in my collages, but I don’t know if I can cut them up? They are lovely! I think it is from 1940 or -50.

More vintage book inspiration

Here are some of the illustrations in the first vintage book:

Cows - Pages from the vintage book Den roliga boken- läsebok för folkskolan, a Swedish school book from about 1940
Rosa mjölkas. Milking the cow Rosa.
Pages from the book Den roliga boken- läsebok för folkskolan, a Swedish school book from about 1940
Vinterfåglarnas stora julkalas. The winter bird’s big Christmas party.
Pages from the book Den roliga boken- läsebok för folkskolan, a Swedish school book from about 1940
Mirran sällskapskatten. The companion cat Mirran.

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3 Responses

  1. That is a lovely red bag. I like kid’s illustrated books very much too! If you can’t bear to cut them , you can photocopy them in colour (assuming that they’re old enough so that copyright would have lapsed) and use the photocopy for your collages. Have fun.

  2. after you take out the pages you want, buy a clock kit and put the covers in a frame and make them into wall clocks for children.