We All Do Fade As a Leaf, Mid 1800s Gold Beaded Punch Paper Embroidery on Silk Ribbon entomolgy pure black ink for hooves

pure black ink for hooves and ears and eyes

became a popular means of enhancing household furnishings

then negative space for the other

I've had a keen eye out for old barbed wire

And sold as found in a beautiful 19th century wide wooden frame with jointed corners

We All Do Fade As a Leaf, Mid 1800s Gold Beaded Punch Paper Embroidery on Silk Ribbon entomolgy pure black ink for hoovesWe all do fade as a leaf, indeed. Something richer and more interesting to the fading of a leaf than a flower, I'd say. This is an extra large one, which lends what feels like quite a bit of gravitas to the pronouncement, too. And embroidered in metallic gold beads, which furthers that sense of weight, and which themselves have surely darkened tarnished a bit over the many years of its life, all to the good. A most frame worthy one either with the