Small Antique Punch Paper Embroidery of Dog: Innocence hand-sewn toy this young man seems wonderfully

this young man seems wonderfully at ease

other playing with simple geometries like this one

Skillfully made

which I've thrown into a slide-top box that is larger than needed but works fine

with tiny hand-sewn seams down the sole and up the back

Small Antique Punch Paper Embroidery of Dog: Innocence hand-sewn toy this young man seems wonderfullyI continue to be fascinated by these old punch paper embroideries because of the way image and text were combined the more unexpected the combination the better. I might have expected "loyal friend" or "my pet" to accompany this dog, but instead "innocence" which makes this dog seem rather holy! (And, as so many of these were religiously oriented, it makes it feel almost as if this pup on his pillow were a stand in for Jesus!) And so, a good one in