Woman with Flowered Hat Hand-painted Spanish Postcard, 1913 leaf design handwoven on a backstop loom

handwoven on a backstop loom

or using as a planter or vessel for a fall arrangement

I think it has many good years left

and no chipping paint

9 7/8 tall and 2 7/8" deep when fully exposed

Woman with Flowered Hat Hand-painted Spanish Postcard, 1913 leaf design handwoven on a backstop loomI just love the image of this decked out woman, with huge hat like a rose garden, completely concealing her head, and reiterated with garland like trim on the back and cuffs of her jacket. My Spanish is, embarrassingly, close to non existent, but the front text seems perhaps to be suggesting shopping now and paying later though I am not totally sure?!? Sent to a Teresa Granell in Buena Vista, Valls (Catalonia, Spain) in May of 1913. Watercolor on