Wonderful Earlier 19th Century Homespun Wool Petit Point Needlepoint Mat with Fluffed Border clay turtle and I believe of

and I believe of

this to me is an interesting example for how cleanly and expertly done it was (and it gave me an excuse to dig in a bit more to the history and varieties of staple repairs

and what I take for dramatically large ears on either side

or whether the magazine was taken on a hunting trip for evening reading and the deer drawn from life

Ella Clark

Wonderful Earlier 19th Century Homespun Wool Petit Point Needlepoint Mat with Fluffed Border clay turtle and I believe ofI've had one other 19th century needlepoint mat of a similar ilk to this one, with this same sort of fluffy edge; I think there may be a specific name for the type, but I don't know it! Earlyish 19th century New England I believe, hand dyed wool on handwoven linen cotton (one can glimpse it along the edge on reverse) finished with handwoven wool cloth backing, which shows a patch of loss but is stable. And that squirrel munching away on those berries