Stop + Look = Safety Old Brass Sign Making Stencil framed petit point circa 1950

circa 1950

A fun gift for your favorite publisher or printmaker — and it also makes a pretty fun easel for a tiny print or painting

would have made a great accompaniment to that great gift

and I've come to think of her as the 'woman in the dunes' with thoughts of Beckett and Paul Bowles

and revealed to be one plate when turned over) that read a bit like landmasses with a river running through

Stop + Look = Safety Old Brass Sign Making Stencil framed petit point circa 1950I've seen some old brass stencils salvaged from apple orchards, which were used for labeling bushels or boxes of different varieties, and also some cut with old company logos but I've never seen one I like as much as this Stop + Look = Safety stencil, which I think rather transcends its original function to read almost like a text piece by Jenny Holzer! So many contexts in which this would be good; I myself might hang it over the front door (or above