Lovely c. 1800 Hand-drawn Patterns (Presumed for Embroidery), Ink on Watermarked Laid Romany Spartan With a pretty cotton woven

With a pretty cotton woven plaid dress--showing yellow from the front

When not in use it looks great hung on the wall from a nail

and wheels around smoothly

while the Makah are located across the straight at Neah Bay

Like paint decorated American wooden furniture and boxes

Lovely c. 1800 Hand-drawn Patterns (Presumed for Embroidery), Ink on Watermarked Laid Romany Spartan With a pretty cotton wovenI believe this these drawings were made as embroidery patterns and I can very much imagine them executed in very fine silk thread. I love them rendered in ink though, on early watermarked laid paper, with wonderful passages of detail, tiny stars and crosshatching and squiggly lines with dots to either side. Lovely. Late 18th very early 19th century European I believe, with watermark detailed in last photo, which I have not researched. 12 7 8" x 7 3