Antique Finely Hand-embroidered Mirrored Wall Hanging coffee cup and cut tin fins--silver on

and cut tin fins--silver on the body

giving the sense of a whole flock aflight

This is a fantastic Aldo Londi for Bitossi "Spagnolo" vase

the cover illustration of which she closely resembles:)

It is amazing how much pleasure and satisfaction on can derive from arranging and re-arranging a set of painted wooden blocks

Antique Finely Hand-embroidered Mirrored Wall Hanging coffee cup and cut tin fins--silver onThis very finely hand embroidered textile valence with mirrors I believe is an antique Indian Toran, likely from Rajasthan in Northern India. I purchased it from the estate sale of a woman who had a phenomenal collection of textiles from around the world. From what I understand, Toran stems from the Sanskrit word Torana which loosely translates "to pass," and Toran would be hung in the home, especially over entrances, to mark passage from exterior to