Fabulous Velvet Mushroom Pin Cushion fine Pima basket perhaps in the early hours

perhaps in the early hours of the morning

Incised into the clay at top is a march of Egyptian inspired (or just kind of Egyptian-styled) iconography

and a poem on the other hailing safe return

which feels rather miraculous

paper not very brittle

Fabulous Velvet Mushroom Pin Cushion fine Pima basket perhaps in the early hoursThe existence of this oversized mushroom pin cushion makes me completely happy, and it could be even better with some stick pins stuck in it, perhaps carefully arranged to spell out a word or two across the expanse of its cap. I am not an expert on pin cushions so am not completely sure the age of this, but the velvet looks hand dyed hand painted to me, and the construction of the mushroom very carefully done, with tiny, barely visible hand stitches