Fabulous Velvet Mushroom Pin Cushion fine Pima basket Sold in the frame I

Sold in the frame I found it in

- but I might be inclined just to wrap a string or ribbon around the handle and hang it on the wall

paper not very brittle

Incised into the clay at top is a march of Egyptian inspired (or just kind of Egyptian-styled) iconography

though I have a hard time imagining a mother who would ever part with these

Fabulous Velvet Mushroom Pin Cushion fine Pima basket Sold in the frame IThe existence of this oversized mushroom pin cushion makes me completely happy, and it could be even better with some stick pins stuck in it, perhaps carefully arranged to spell out a word or two across the expanse of its cap. I am not an expert on pin cushions so am not completely sure the age of this, but the velvet looks hand dyed hand painted to me, and the construction of the mushroom very carefully done, with tiny, barely visible hand stitches