Wonderfully Awkward Antique Silk on Silk Embroidered Bird relics and I would guess a

and I would guess a hundred years old

one for the hind

really a nice example

with these huge yellow eyes and wide open

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Wonderfully Awkward Antique Silk on Silk Embroidered Bird relics and I would guess aA little bird very much after my own heart, wonderfully awkward and hard trying! Silk thread on silk ground, hand dyed I believe, making me think this earlyish 19th century, I'd think done by a girl fairly early on in developing her embroidery skills. The feathers of the wings are quite glorious, like flame stitching, but it's the funny beak and dangling little feet that really get me. Love. Framed as found, under glass in a newer gold painted wooden