GOD BLESS OUR HOME, Wonderfully Crude Make Do Embroidery on Wire Mesh Screen, Original Frame folk art jesus Wake into voice each silent

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sometime between 1830 and 1842

) The carving was done in very low relief

I would guess 1940s or so as that seems to be when crepe paper dolls were pretty popular

with the posts perfect for stacking rings and things

GOD BLESS OUR HOME, Wonderfully Crude Make Do Embroidery on Wire Mesh Screen, Original Frame folk art jesus Wake into voice each silentI do believe my favorite find of the week; I just love this. I'd call it a "make do" version of a punch perforated paper embroidery, done instead on a wire mesh screen (which one imagines was left over from screening the porch or barn yard or making a strainer) and, happily, with this red yarn forming the most perfectly crude, matter of fact lettering possible a complete 180 degrees from the fancy to "God Bless" lettering of more common punch paper