Indian placemat

Fancy placemat with little decorative metal widgets, I think originating in India, though I am not certain.

Step

 Grippy rubber surface of a step for little kids.

Towel

Bundled up folds of bright and colorful towel.

Lint

 A topography of giant folds of lint.

Pine

 Finely ground pine.

Defunct electrical connection

I wonder how many decades ago this once bare-exposed electrical connection was chopped away, decreasing the danger of our house's electrical system.

Furnace coupling

 Goggle-eyed coupling connector into a part of our furnace.

Suitcase rollers

 Little teeny rollers on a big hard-sided suitcase.

Mattress

 Quilted patterns of a mattress.

Faucet

 A pair of faucet heads.

Mop head

Crinkled head of a mop.

Broom

Colored fiber bundles of a broom.

Sandal

Ribbed structure of a sandal.

Decorated jar

 Jar decorated with stickers by a small child, then filled with little colored pompoms.

Packing material

 One more shot of this wonderfully complex packing material's topography.

Packing material

Curves and crenellations like the walls of a castle.

Packing material

 More packing material ribs in a pattern like a cathedral roof.

Packing material

Complex hills and valleys of some compostable packing materials.
 

Dried bouquet

Dried wedding bouquet, hanging upside down on our wall for many years.

Clothesline

Tangled heaps of old clothesline, not used for many years. Why do we still have it, again?

Easter basket

Easter basket, sitting high on a shelf awaiting its yearly return to service.

Metal rack

 Intersecting patterns of floor and metal storage rack.

Tiled floor

Tiled floor in our basement, brown curlicue patterns that do a remarkably good job of camouflaging unfortunate byproducts of cat ownership until I've already stepped on them.

Rain boots

 Most awesome colorful rainboots, looking like a party every day.

Old license plates

Old license plates from our former state of residence, lurking abandoned on a basement shelf.
 

Hairbands

 Colorful little rubber hairbands, all circling around together.

Highlighters

 Collection of highlighters near a window.

Book spines

Spine of a match collection of hardcover novels in our library.

Incense burner

 An incense burner, many holes around a tall steel core.

Baby gates

Another stack of layered obsolescence. One of these gates protected the stairs for a far longer time than the others were able to remain. And then she figure out how to pull that one down on herself too...

Baby gates

Once of great value in our house, our baby gates didn't even make it to our younger daughter's second birthday before they became more liability than help. Once the toddlersaurus figures out a sufficient level of violence to take the gate down, there's no going back to effective confinement.