Kindergarten Embroidery Card, Girl Dragging Her Dolls! tramp art wall pocket lushness and boldness

lushness and boldness

Pages are not traditionally numbered but I'd guess 6 or 7 hundred

but still holding together ok

I’ve always got an eye out for very believably bruised pieces

What I realized through the process of photographing it is how much it seems to reference folk art traditions

Kindergarten Embroidery Card, Girl Dragging Her Dolls! tramp art wall pocket lushness and boldnessPunch paper embroidery cards were an aspect of Froebel's kindergarten program, though I believe printed figurative ones like this were less open ended than he would have proscribed. The printed image on this one, though, I think is so good, with this girl in her hat dragging one doll by the arm like a misbehaving child, while towing another little one along behind her in a box on a string, unminded and the face on that one really does it for me!