SOLD Early Flame Stitch Embroidery on Linen Fragment in (Lovely) Later Art Nouveau Frame treen ink bottle Wonderfully primitive in the manner

Wonderfully primitive in the manner of the carving

Perhaps it once held a glass bottle inside (perhaps for ink

and think these three sets together could occupy child and adult a like for quite a long time

and surely a medical book

Some glare

SOLD Early Flame Stitch Embroidery on Linen Fragment in (Lovely) Later Art Nouveau Frame treen ink bottle Wonderfully primitive in the mannerI'm always ooh ing and aah ing over antique flame stitch embroidery, which one most often sees on embroidered wallets of the 18th century so beautiful, but invariably way beyond my reach. This patch of flame stitching on linen satisfies the itch, though I'm guessing done just as a practice sampler of sorts. The linen is nothing for than loose threads in a couple of area and just sort of folded into the frame to stabilize it, but the embroidery itself