Sweet Little Bee-like Antique Folk Art Pin Cushion taxidermy Currier Museum of Art

Currier Museum of Art

cost calculation will not be accurate

with so much care

and as I've said before

In some ways seeming to reference Inuit masks

Sweet Little Bee-like Antique Folk Art Pin Cushion taxidermy Currier Museum of ArtJust too sweet a little pin cushion to resist, which to me looks something like a bird or bee flying into spring! Clearly made with a lot of love, with that pink silk ribbon hand stitched all around the edges, a small gap left at the nose end for hanging. Terrific fabric too, brocade I want to call it, with cream on black seaweed pattern and areas of well worn velvet. And then a pretty little blue and white patch sewn on to the underside, I presume a