Lovingly Crafted Antique Needlebook with Homespun Checked Fabric Cover antique spillikins I believe it was likely

I believe it was likely made as a tourist souvenir

The name of the species--in this case it looks to be "Russ dagueletti" is incised on the bottom of the piece

as it is a tremendously satisfying thing to hold in one's hand

) Even more than a new box of Crayola's

with a hand and face in pale yellow and hair and perhaps a foot rendered in graphite) represents an angel of sorts

Lovingly Crafted Antique Needlebook with Homespun Checked Fabric Cover antique spillikins I believe it was likelyThis little needle book make have seen better days, but it's so sweet, and invested with such lovely details, I think well worth preserving. I really love the use of black line on the homespun red and white and black checked fabric that covers it, and then lovely pale yellow embroidery along the edges of the two lay inside end pages with fancy knots binding them together. The three pages for needles are wool, the largest center of them red with pretty