Antique Silk Tumbing Blocks Quilt Fragment with Cut Paper Template Backing treen box with horse roulette perfectly resolved composition

perfectly resolved composition

with hanging hooks at the top ends of the rear spindles for hanging on the wall--a good one for displaying an arrangement of (not too heavy) carved figures and whimsies and other sorts of treasures

forearms and lower legs are composition

to whom the French seller of this print pointed me

but one looking to me as if bearing the ghosty image of a face (not so much as if the subject of the original photo

Antique Silk Tumbing Blocks Quilt Fragment with Cut Paper Template Backing treen box with horse roulette perfectly resolved compositionThis is a remnant from what I believe was probably a full scale quilt or table covering long and narrow, which I might just pin to the wall to let hang down, tumbling vertically down the wall! For me, it is the reverse side, showing its construction with cut paper templates used to form each facet of the blocks, around which silk scraps were wrapped and sewn down that is the most beautiful, with print on a few of the scrap paper squares. A few seams