Wonderfully Awkward Antique Silk on Silk Embroidered Bird relics and look even better in

and look even better in person (there is a little glare on a few of the photos

but it's such a beautiful object I would just set it on the shelf or desk now to admire

" is a phrase central to Freemasonry

and I would guess a hundred years old

with awesome incised Egyptian-inspired drawings

Wonderfully Awkward Antique Silk on Silk Embroidered Bird relics and look even better inA little bird very much after my own heart, wonderfully awkward and hard trying! Silk thread on silk ground, hand dyed I believe, making me think this earlyish 19th century, I'd think done by a girl fairly early on in developing her embroidery skills. The feathers of the wings are quite glorious, like flame stitching, but it's the funny beak and dangling little feet that really get me. Love. Framed as found, under glass in a newer gold painted wooden