Amazing Handmade Bobbin Lace Medallions - Woman and Man (or Ghost!) physiology toe nails painted too

toe nails painted too

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

but it is very faint and I am unable to read it

I really love the face on the girl carrying her candlestick

and would not want to cross her

Amazing Handmade Bobbin Lace Medallions - Woman and Man (or Ghost!) physiology toe nails painted tooWhat 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