Gloriously Colorful Old Velvet Piecework Seven Point Star wispy --this sign

--this sign

with a color that appropriately reminds one of honey

and to me with a sort of iconic-ness

Scratched by hand into the back of the sign is "March 1914

This looks like the first of the flowering trees in early spring to me

Gloriously Colorful Old Velvet Piecework Seven Point Star wispy --this signI found this one at the Rhinebeck show last weekend and thought it fantastically beautiful like the sort of 19th c. geometric watercolors or ink drawings I am always hoping for but rarely finding, and all the better for being stitched together of lushly colored, carefully cut pieces of velvet. And the flip side is as good as the front in a different sort of way, showing the backing as sewn together of pieces of what I believe is sack cloth, some