Antique Silk Tumbing Blocks Quilt Fragment with Cut Paper Template Backing neighbor puppet transforming it into a singular

transforming it into a singular and much more aggressive sort of object

I guess barbed wire balls are a thing people made

a mid-western Coney Island of sorts

(Forgive the glare in these images

designed to enable a very bruising thwacking

Antique Silk Tumbing Blocks Quilt Fragment with Cut Paper Template Backing neighbor puppet transforming it into a singularThis is a remnant from what I believe was probably a full scale quilt or table covering long and narrow, which I might just pin to the wall to let hang down, tumbling vertically down the wall! For me, it is the reverse side, showing its construction with cut paper templates used to form each facet of the blocks, around which silk scraps were wrapped and sewn down that is the most beautiful, with print on a few of the scrap paper squares. A few seams