Satisfying Antique Velvet Pin Cushion, As Found primitive carved tool All stable and sound and

All stable and sound and more beautiful in person

which would then be placed under someone's feet

with our canine subject captured at just the right instant

and the pins fit smoothy through the tabs in the panels

did a series of drawings very late in life of floating forms composed body-less facial profiles

Satisfying Antique Velvet Pin Cushion, As Found primitive carved tool All stable and sound andI look at a lot of pin cushions such perfect examples of the human compulsion to make even the smallest and simplest of utilitarian objects special and while this is not a fancy one, there is something about its roundness, and the gray tan velvet dyed (now very) pale blue at the very center of the top and bottom, and all of these pins stuck in it that make it, to my eye, quite a satisfying little thing. Sweet and lovely. 2 3 8" in diameter x 2 1 18" t