Antique Boot-shaped Pin Cushion or Whimsy with Pinwork Detail antique numbers gold and copper depicting floating

gold and copper depicting floating bridges or rafts

a flowering perennial with erect stems of foamy cream flowers in summer

with a loose suggestion of wood grain

designed by Nils Thorsson

All three though were hand-painted

Antique Boot-shaped Pin Cushion or Whimsy with Pinwork Detail antique numbers gold and copper depicting floatingIve been eyeing the decorative use of stickpins on old pin cushions and other little things of late, so was thrilled to find this wonderful little boot, with painstakingly executed stickpin border all around, and a couple of tiny tassels at top to boot (ha!) Down the front toe of the boot the pins punctuate embroidered laces; on the rest of the perimeter they run down the center of carefully done edge stitching. Some loss fraying of what I think is