Lovingly Crafted Antique Needlebook with Homespun Checked Fabric Cover antique spillikins I believe it was likely

I believe it was likely made as a tourist souvenir

and perhaps especially the back

the largest island in the Arctic Archipelago and in the territory of Nunavut

which itself bore the influence of Staffordshire and Rockingham lions from the mid-18th c

Lovingly Crafted Antique Needlebook with Homespun Checked Fabric Cover antique spillikins I believe it was likelyThis little needle book make have seen better days, but it's so sweet, and invested with such lovely details, I think well worth preserving. I really love the use of black line on the homespun red and white and black checked fabric that covers it, and then lovely pale yellow embroidery along the edges of the two lay inside end pages with fancy knots binding them together. The three pages for needles are wool, the largest center of them red with pretty