Antique Hand-forged Iron Quilting Clamp with Big Heart (One of Two More Just Found) Lamont oklahoma and know that these flasks

and know that these flasks were very popular with soldiers

Most are marked with hand-written point values on one side

(Good for paper weaving

I can't remember where I first saw a twined Plateau Native "corn husk" bag of this type (typically described as Nez Perce

all just right against that excellent blue

Antique Hand-forged Iron Quilting Clamp with Big Heart (One of Two More Just Found) Lamont oklahoma and know that these flasksThe is a 19th century hand forged iron quilting clamp, with one of this sort often referred to as a "heart clamp" for the heart shaped finial on the screw. It would have been used for clamping the fabric layers of a quilt (top, batting, backing) to the rails of a frame while working it (sparing the quiltmaking from laborious pinning, etc.) Once a month I go up to midcoast Maine for a show, and once a month, for a few months now, I bring home an old