Fantastic 17th Century English Needlework Fragment, Portrait of Young Woman with Large Hands and Flower wooden bird whistle with a backside to my

with a backside to my eye (less the tape) as beautiful as the front

One certainly imagines these were modeled after specific houses--if only I had an entire town's worth

It's a bit hard to photograph--the dark squares on the front are a deep burgandy-brown stain

etc) to articles with titles such as “Antique Earrings and Fibulae

deriving its specialness not from a volume of stacked layers but rather from the care taken with the individual bits

Fantastic 17th Century English Needlework Fragment, Portrait of Young Woman with Large Hands and Flower wooden bird whistle with a backside to myThis one. I purchased her from a dealer in my neck of the woods with really exceptional things all pretty much all beyond my reach, but this came along with a much more elaborate 17th c. stumpwork, which was his interest, and so I was able to attain her and I do feel as though she travelled across nearly four hundred years and an ocean just to be found by me! I mean, look at those hands! This is a fragment from a c. mid 17th century English stump work