Lovely and Smart Antique Silk Covered Color-blocked Folk Art Sewing Box isleta which is dark

which is dark

And happily an endless supply of origami papers at hand

feeling very much like a vision from another world

I don't mind--and what a lot of work and care Samuel Stevens of West Derby Vermont

and the number 55631 is written in pencil in the upper right corner

Lovely and Smart Antique Silk Covered Color-blocked Folk Art Sewing Box isleta which is darkThere is a specific type of antique geometric pin cushion pin keep, constructed of card board with a different piece of colorful silk on each facet (see photos for one example not the best but you get a sense), that is very close kin to this box; the construction, and the feel, is just the same. I'm fairly obsessed with those, but have never seen one like this, and it feels like a special present of a little sewing box to me. Very modern feeling, too,