Antique Linen Pincushion with Wonderful Bobbin Lace Woman 1903 Really a great piece and

Really a great piece and wonderful gift for your favorite cook

and the cutouts forming heart patterns at the center of the handle

and most angelic wings

minor staining and fading to (what is now) a very pale blue watercolored background

A little research lead me to discover that this drawing must have been made after a woodcut first published as a plate in Thomas Hood's Whims and Oddities: in prose and verse

Antique Linen Pincushion with Wonderful Bobbin Lace Woman 1903 Really a great piece andWhat a lot of love went into this one, and what a lot of love and use it appears to have seen, which of course makes it feel all the more precious to me. Two layers of yellow fabric, the top one a (now) pale yellow linen, with this wonderful needle bobbin lace hatted woman at the center, hands on hips, with marvelous tiny fingers. 3 7 8" x 3 5 8" not including tassels. Surface fading and darkening buy no holes or issues, all seams tightly hand sewn,