Fantastic 19th Century Very Finely Beaded Green and White Checkerboard Patterned Needlebook/Pinkeep painted cochiti drum awkward but eager

awkward but eager

I've included tons of pictures as I think it is so lovely

If you would like all of them

these became popular tourist items in Oaxaca the 1940's with the construction of the Pan-American Highway

but with the invention of both rubber gloves and rubber condoms following on the heels of Charles Goodyear's invention of vulcanized rubber in America 1839 (patented in 1844)

Fantastic 19th Century Very Finely Beaded Green and White Checkerboard Patterned Needlebook/Pinkeep painted cochiti drum awkward but eagerI swooned when I spotted this one, sold to me by a favorite dealer from Maine, and which I am quite sure is 19th c. New England. Since finding a very similarly constructed finely beaded needlebook a month or so ago (that one with a white New England house and sentiment "Remember Me" spelled out in tiny seed beads, just the size of these) I have been obsessed; not many of these out there, and it wouldn't surprise me a bit if this was made by the same