SOLD Wonderful Folk Art Needle Lace Medallion: Robed Woman with Book (Mourning Picture?) mocassin shaped but pages are generally clean

but pages are generally clean and in overall good shape

hands on hips

with ebony backs

Camel measures 2" t x 3 1/8" l

Really three earrings in one

SOLD Wonderful Folk Art Needle Lace Medallion: Robed Woman with Book (Mourning Picture?) mocassin shaped but pages are generally cleanI've always got an eye out for handmade figurative lace, the folkier and more singular the better, so was delighted to find this piece this week, most of all for the fact that its subject holds a book in her hand! Though I'm not certain, I might guess this was made as a mourning piece, with our somewhat mournful looking woman holding one hand over her heart and perhaps reading a prayer from the book in the other, standing in front of what looks like