Delicious Antique Painted Silk Apple Pin Cushion brush with long handle and then more nails holding

and then more nails holding on the various super folky rudders and what not

easily done I think

and then how those two bead-like rivets puncture the interior so delicately

and one teeming with love

and a well worn woven green fabric lining

Delicious Antique Painted Silk Apple Pin Cushion brush with long handle and then more nails holdingYum. I've had one of these antique hand painted silk apple pin cushions before, and will continue to scoop them up when I can because I find them such beautiful things, each a little different. There is something about the softness of the silk and luminosity of these colors painted on it that to me feel almost otherworldly. Plus I love an apple as a thing and as a symbol, of desire among other things. This one with a braided stem and satisfying seam