19th Century PA Needlepoint Wall-pocket in Homespun Wool with Woolen Trim Hennix ceramics and looking at the snow-blanketed

and looking at the snow-blanketed farm house makes me appreciate the emergence of green all the more

but I really love it as an object

though otherwise in good antique condition

It will stand up nicely if leaned slightly against something (I've shown it sitting inside an old treen lid

There is a dealer at an antique mall near Boston I frequent who has been doling out late 19th century Grand Tour albumen prints of sculptures in the collection of the Napoli Museo (National Archaeological Museum of Naples) a few at a time

19th Century PA Needlepoint Wall-pocket in Homespun Wool with Woolen Trim Hennix ceramics and looking at the snow-blanketedI'm fairly obsessed with 19th century American needlepoints executed in hand dyed homespun wool that are just pure pattern they feel so crisp and modern to me. Here incorporated into a functional wall pocket, with fancy red wool trim all around. There is a small loop at the top point on reverse for hanging, which I would do straight away, maybe to tuck important or encouraging notes to self inside of, but I wouldn't use for things much heavier than