Lovely, Delicate Old Hand-cut Brown Paper Quilting Template pheasant with terrific banded pattern around

with terrific banded pattern around the sides created through a wax resist technique

late 19th century so so I believe--but I think its maker did not fully consider the need to leave unpainted areas for the foil to show and shimmer through

coarse horsehair bristles (with just a few lighter mixed in)

It's the wonderful work of Emile Bluteau (1931-

and quite an existential feeling one too--starting down into the void

Lovely, Delicate Old Hand-cut Brown Paper Quilting Template pheasant with terrific banded pattern aroundI think this is really beautiful, with details giving a better sense of the paper, with what looks like blue watercolor around the edges, which is what must have been used to draw the outlines, free hand it would seem, before cutting it out. A few more PA quilting templates listed today but I believe this one older than those, and especially delicate. Found carefully folded up as shown pretty amazing it has survived all in one pieces, with no evident