Flame Stitch and Cornucopia, Pair of 19th Century Schoolgirl Needlepoints on Homespun Linen with Puffed Borders folk art nutcracker and went on to set

and went on to set up a workshop in Jerusalem

It is an old one

and she looks quite like a bird

Feels to me like just the sort of photograph from which a period television drama could--should

with many of the forms detailed on the lid of the box long since gone

Flame Stitch and Cornucopia, Pair of 19th Century Schoolgirl Needlepoints on Homespun Linen with Puffed Borders folk art nutcracker and went on to setNever ever will I resist small woolen needleworks like this with these sorts of fluffed borders, these two I believe likely the work of a schoolgirl in the second half of the 19th century. Found pinned directly to the wall, which is just what I would do with them. So joyful, and electric feeling, and with the flame stitch one especially feeling to me perfectly poised to have a conversation with an abstract painting, modern or post modern or painted