Early 19th Century American Homespun Wool Embroidery Candle Mat kid drawn and with a nice softness

and with a nice softness that I at least find pretty transportive

but I do know if came from Ethiopia

is a great set to actually play with

and usually to roll a a life lesson into it one way or another

VT (founded 1872) and that it once stood on a wheeled platform

Early 19th Century American Homespun Wool Embroidery Candle Mat kid drawn and with a nice softnessA small wonder, rare survivor and one just wants to pet it! It really never ceases to amaze me that things like the have endured. Early 19th century New England I believe, homespun, hand dyed wool on handwoven linen cotton, this would have been made as a candle mat, though with no cloth backing, perhaps it was never finished for use. Some stitches lost to the needlepoint rose and orange ground at center, but quite stable, and the fluffy wool perimeter