Amazing Handmade Bobbin Lace Medallions - Woman and Man (or Ghost!) physiology with hand-painted decoration for the

with hand-painted decoration for the skirts of the dancing girls

and would not want to cross her

The bone-faced German and French dominoes are always defective as well as expensive

There is tearing to the purple velvet on the back

kindergarten woven paper "beauty form" using Froebel's 14th Gift weaving papers

Amazing Handmade Bobbin Lace Medallions - Woman and Man (or Ghost!) physiology with hand-painted decoration for theWhat a lot of work went into making these two bobbin lace medallions or doilies done by hand, with very fine thread (silk I believe) and what a lo0t of patience and manual dexterity required! I'm a huge fan of figural bobbin lace and have seen one or two round pieces like this with a figure similar to the ghost like man at center, but never as part of a pair with a female companion (and what a great skirt on her!) I'd frame them together side by side