Wonderfully Awkward Antique Silk on Silk Embroidered Bird relics with awesome incised Egyptian-inspired drawings

with awesome incised Egyptian-inspired drawings

one for the hind

(It thus seems right that she might have taken a bump to the nose at some point along the way

and I would guess a hundred years old

This one nicely frames a view of a small tarn near the summit of Nan Bield Pass

Wonderfully Awkward Antique Silk on Silk Embroidered Bird relics with awesome incised Egyptian-inspired drawingsA little bird very much after my own heart, wonderfully awkward and hard trying! Silk thread on silk ground, hand dyed I believe, making me think this earlyish 19th century, I'd think done by a girl fairly early on in developing her embroidery skills. The feathers of the wings are quite glorious, like flame stitching, but it's the funny beak and dangling little feet that really get me. Love. Framed as found, under glass in a newer gold painted wooden