Antique Hand-sewn Silk Baby Booty Pin Cushion with Linen Bottom view from below San Francisco and New York

San Francisco and New York

I'll never pass on an older piece of Acoma pueblo pottery if I can help it

found in Maine the other day

including layers upon layers of onlookers

Rather unusual

Antique Hand-sewn Silk Baby Booty Pin Cushion with Linen Bottom view from below San Francisco and New YorkSo many great old handmade pin cushions out there of wide variety, but I've not come across another quite like this little bootie. It's quite a lovely and tender feeling thing, and rather ethereal too, covered in silk that perhaps once was a very pale blue, but now shows white with a very faint blue tinge tinge. Stuffed with what appears to me to be raw cotton, or perhaps very soft wool, and with a linen sole. 3" l x 1 5 8" x 1 1 4". Stable and not