Fantastic 17th Century English Needlework Fragment, Portrait of Young Woman with Large Hands and Flower wooden bird whistle etc) to articles with titles

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

I am guessing mid 19th century

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

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

I really love the bird and would use it for tea bags

Fantastic 17th Century English Needlework Fragment, Portrait of Young Woman with Large Hands and Flower wooden bird whistle etc) to articles with titlesThis 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