Wonderful Antique Handmade Bobbin Lace Woman with Scythe antique painters palette best of all

best of all

They're  just wonderful objects that could be great used to hold a hair bun in place

Louis Fair

which is quite strong

Wonderful Antique Handmade Bobbin Lace Woman with Scythe antique painters palette best of allThis special thing is a piece of late 19th century figural Italian Cantu lace, entirely made by hand. At the center is this wonderful raised appliqud woman holding a scythe, with a patch of wheat before her, flowers and a butterfly at her back, and perhaps the shade of a few leafy branches overhead, all set amid this great net like ground. Perhaps it was once part of a tablecloth decoration, I'm not sure, but now I'd treat it as the work of art it is