Wonderful Antique Cigar Silk Quilt, 21-ish Inches Square New England native basket it keeps making me think

it keeps making me think of a stained glass window

This is a gorgeous hand-painted watercolor textile design

made with real slate that retains a sense of many many years of school lessons performed across its surface--and I believe this is an especially old one (19th c I think)

skill and patience can enable

allow them to double as trivets

Wonderful Antique Cigar Silk Quilt, 21-ish Inches Square New England native basket it keeps making me thinkI've had a few cigar silk quilts in the shop, which feel like great treasures every time I find them, each one stunning in its glorious shades of gold, and each reflecting its individual maker, including the range of brands of cigars they were able to attain ribbons from! Some are especially striking for the way the brand names were very precisely lined up in rows, but this one I love more for the opposite reason: though very carefully sewn together