Fantastic 17th Century English Needlework Fragment, Portrait of Young Woman with Large Hands and Flower handmade souvenir box Not including the hanging loop

Not including the hanging loop

and appears to have been much loved

She attended the Brighton College of Art

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with the contrast between two different lengths of links making them feel specific and particular

Fantastic 17th Century English Needlework Fragment, Portrait of Young Woman with Large Hands and Flower handmade souvenir box Not including the hanging loopThis one. I purchased her from a dealer in my neck of the woods with really exceptional things all pretty much all beyond my reach, but this came along with a much more elaborate 17th c. stumpwork, which was his interest, and so I was able to attain her and I do feel as though she travelled across nearly four hundred years and an ocean just to be found by me! I mean, look at those hands! This is a fragment from a c. mid 17th century English stump work