Star Studded Antique Leather Covered Stool in Bittersweet Paint, with Nailed Mend sketchbook drawings with an oddly positioned--and anatomically

with an oddly positioned--and anatomically suggestive

The surface ranges from a shiny midnight blue to a dark mossy green to a stony matte black with a terrific texture

This pair--one a map of "the block

vary in size

which makes it just about the ultimate needlework to me

Star Studded Antique Leather Covered Stool in Bittersweet Paint, with Nailed Mend sketchbook drawings with an oddly positioned--and anatomicallyThis stool is one of my very favorite Brimfield purchases, which photos just can't do justice the color and patina on the bittersweet painted leather (over brown wool) surface is otherworldly. And the patina on the old brass studs forming this wonderful star at its center, too. Plus some old iron nails forming a sort of zig zag to one side of that star, repairing a tear to the leather very long ago one can see a bit of the brown fabric showing through