Early 19th Century American Homespun Wool Embroidery Candle Mat kid drawn British flag waving and trails

British flag waving and trails of what looks like cotton spewing from its chimneys

VT (founded 1872) and that it once stood on a wheeled platform

and usually to roll a a life lesson into it one way or another

The set includes 16 clay and 1 wood marble and what I believe it a pretty old fabric pouch in which they came

I love that the image makes its subject (and what a beautiful textile it is

Early 19th Century American Homespun Wool Embroidery Candle Mat kid drawn British flag waving and trailsA small wonder, rare survivor and one just wants to pet it! It really never ceases to amaze me that things like the have endured. Early 19th century New England I believe, homespun, hand dyed wool on handwoven linen cotton, this would have been made as a candle mat, though with no cloth backing, perhaps it was never finished for use. Some stitches lost to the needlepoint rose and orange ground at center, but quite stable, and the fluffy wool perimeter