Lovely and Smart Antique Silk Covered Color-blocked Folk Art Sewing Box isleta but they're also pretty excellent

but they're also pretty excellent just as they are

Beautiful and creatively inspiring (to me

feeling very much like a vision from another world

and the nib comes off easily

which I think is very likely the case

Lovely and Smart Antique Silk Covered Color-blocked Folk Art Sewing Box isleta but they're also pretty excellentThere is a specific type of antique geometric pin cushion pin keep, constructed of card board with a different piece of colorful silk on each facet (see photos for one example not the best but you get a sense), that is very close kin to this box; the construction, and the feel, is just the same. I'm fairly obsessed with those, but have never seen one like this, and it feels like a special present of a little sewing box to me. Very modern feeling, too,