Woman in Turban, Very Intricate Old Folk Art Needle Lace Medallion modern ceramic vase It's rustically done

It's rustically done

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I will always fully refund returns

but the red darned square on this small 1878 schoolgirl sewing sampler is as precise as any I've ever seen--the stitches are teeny teeny teeny tiny

Woman in Turban, Very Intricate Old Folk Art Needle Lace Medallion modern ceramic vase It's rustically doneSeveral years ago I found a figural needle lace medallion very closely related to this one that one depicting a figure wearing an elaborate headdress I took for Native American (photo included in documentation). It seems quite likely then that a series of these were created, representing the traditional costumes of different cultures from around the world whether by a single maker or done after a pattern I am not entirely certain, though I might now