Wonderful Earlier 19th Century Homespun Wool Petit Point Needlepoint Mat with Fluffed Border clay turtle a ship in a bottle

a ship in a bottle the making of which I can completely understand

I have not touched the lacquer on this but think it could be cleaned a bit

I’d guess maybe in the 1970s or so

this to me is an interesting example for how cleanly and expertly done it was (and it gave me an excuse to dig in a bit more to the history and varieties of staple repairs

and then this great fence around them and two great brown ducks marching along below

Wonderful Earlier 19th Century Homespun Wool Petit Point Needlepoint Mat with Fluffed Border clay turtle a ship in a bottleI've had one other 19th century needlepoint mat of a similar ilk to this one, with this same sort of fluffy edge; I think there may be a specific name for the type, but I don't know it! Earlyish 19th century New England I believe, hand dyed wool on handwoven linen cotton (one can glimpse it along the edge on reverse) finished with handwoven wool cloth backing, which shows a patch of loss but is stable. And that squirrel munching away on those berries