Marvelous Primitive Folk Art Carving of Parent Holding Child poured brass I'm listing this antique embroidery

I'm listing this antique embroidery on linen pin cushion just as I found it -- stuck full of pins

I have to think it was a mother or a teacher who made this one

all attesting to the fact that these have seen many a match

and mended at some point years ago

with its brown squiggles--set against bright white and framed in mustard yellow--almost like abstracted figures marching around the perimeter of the vase

Marvelous Primitive Folk Art Carving of Parent Holding Child poured brass I'm listing this antique embroideryThis is my favorite object I found at Brimfield, which I purchased from an excellent dealer who had it in his personal collection for several decades. Carved from one block of wood, what a sense of deep connection between parent and child it conveys, specific and universal. I love that the parent appears of no specific gender, and I love the faces and ears! on both parent and child. But most of all I love the dangling legs of the baby, draped around